Stop your fucking spam

[Mahmoud AboZaid <the_maxer at yahoo dot com>]

--- Osama ALASSIRY <osama at alassiry dot com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 04:15, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> 
> > --- Ossama Khayat <ossama at linuxmail dot org> wrote:
> > > I had a visit to your nice site today, and
> noticed that our website
> > > and other usefull websites aren't listed there.
> > 
> > The site Ossama is talking about :-) is,
> > 
> >   http://www.arabiclinux.org
> > 
> > Haisam, this is a site you admin, right ?  If not,
> we need to bounce
> > all these emails to whomever does (ooops :-)
> 
> Sorry, it's mine!!!
> 
> The site is not intended to be a "real site" yet, it
> is currently just
> one of the test sites for nashr.net (a closed source
> arabic - web based
> - web publishing system )
> 
> > A couple of quick comments.
> > 
> >  1. On Arabiclinux.org's main page there is a
> '3eyoon AlArab' blurb/News
> >     item.  If that is about Arabeyes, please
> replace '3eyoon AlArab' with
> >     'Arabeyes' (3arabAyes - note our logo :-) and
> do please include a
> >     link in that article to www.arabeyes.org (so
> that there is a continuation
> >     to the article).  If the article is about
> something/someone else, then
> >     I'm rather confused :-)
> > 
> 
> This is just a fixed up machine translation (using
> almisbar), of some
> text from arabeyes.org...  It will be fixed.
> 
> >  2. The page is in CP-1256.  I highly encourage
> you and others to refrain
> >     from using that encoding and esp. with regard
> to Open Source projects.
> >     We need to move one and all away from that
> encoding and all things
> >     proprietary and embrace the use of UTF-8.  I
> am just very troubled to
> >     see Arabic Linux and Open Source sites
> carrying that encoding (and
> >     there was been many of late from linux4arab to
> virtually all the LUGs).
> > 
> >     Using CP-1256 tells me we are sending the
> wrong message.
> > 
> 
> It is only cp-1256 because "nashr.net" only suports
> cp-1256, most of the
> intended users will be windows users, and cp-1256 is
> even supported by
> other operating systems. the rationale of the
> nashr.net team is that it
> is the best codepage to use since it is an "arabic
> only" system, and
> utf-8 would mean about  two bytes/character for all
> the arabic text.
> 
> > I am also calling on 1-2 people (volunteers
> anyone) to look into the
> > availability and usability of Arabic (using UTF-8
> of course) within phpNuke
> > and postNuke.  We need to tell those open source
> projects to have Arabic
> > packages be shipped as UTF-8 pages with CP-1256
> available as an option
> > (not the other way around).
> > 
> > Salam.
> > 
> >  - Nadim
> > 
> > 
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> Osama ALASSIRY
> 
> 
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