Re: Arabeyes in Windows magazine

[Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de>]

the problem with evo is well-known :"no Arabic support planned for now".
As they are very busy with redesign, I don't know when evo will recieve
arabic goodness BUT it is opted to be included into the gnome 2.6
release so maybe we can speak to the gnome ppl then...

Am Sam, 2003-11-01 um 07.06 schrieb Mohammed Elzubeir:
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:00:06PM +0300, Samy Al Bahra wrote:
> > The Arabeyes project has made it into the September issue of the
> > "Windows - Middle East" magazine. Page 12 has a side feature titled
> > "Arabeyes-ation" that discusses the OpenOffice arabization project.
> > 
> > Just to quote from several sections:
> > [LINUX development group Arabeyes is looking to create a fully
> > functional, Arabised version of OpenOffice. The project will will take
> > approximately six months, will see the addition of the correct
> > bi-directional algorithm....]
> > 
> > ["OpenOffice is a good alternative to Microsoft. The problem is that
> > IBM submitted patches to fix up the Arabic and while it kind of worked,
> > it was only useable if you were testing. However, Sun rejected them [the
> > changes] and as Sun leads the development it just didn't happen"
> > explained Arabeyes spokesperson, Mohammed Elzubeir.]
> > 
> > ["Arabeye's initial review of the software revealed that both
> > OpenOPffice and Evolution, an outlook like e-mail client [...], required
> > a number of additional features. Foremost among these is a need for a
> > bidirectional algorithm..."].
> > 
> > Regarding the last quote, evolution has been ported to GTK 2.X for quite
> > a while now. Already several releases have been made (1.4X series). This
> > means the usual PANGO capabilities.
> > 
> > I'm sorry if I missed any initial OpenOffice discussions, where exactly
> > is this work going? Have you guys taken into account the Ximian GTK2
> > patches for OpenOffice (i18n of the UI)?
> 
> 
> Well, first of all those quotes are not exact. In either case, this was
> before OOo's good bidi support. As far as Evolution goes.. we all know,
> it has very crappy bidi support. 
> 
> We intended to work directly on OOo but it seems that there is little
> left to do (aside from duali integration).
> 
> Regards