Re: Arabic DrakX

[Diego Iastrubni <iastrubn at actcom dot co dot il>]

ביום ראשון, 4 בינואר 2004, 10:38, נכתב על ידי Youcef Rabah Rahal:
> Hi,
>
> On Saturday 03 January 2004 18:50, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> >DrakX is about 88% now. It was higher in 9.2. Can someone explain this to
> >me?
>
> If you add new strings to a PO file (from the developer side), the
> percentage can only lower ;-) Can't see any other reason (unless the
> translator 'untranslates' some strings).
>
> Is this your question though ?
>
Youcef,
maybe I was not clear... but I used a stock 9.2. 
Back then it HAD arabic translations. 
You see, the DrakX module is used widely in mdk-config tools, it's not only 
the install. For example DrakBoot uses drakx.po (also a largepart of modules 
in the mdk-control-centre). So if you have Arabic in most mcc tools, you 
should have translations also in the install (since it uses the same po file, 
and I can guess that most of them were translated). Remember that that file 
was about 90% back then. 
I also remember testing it back then. It's reversed the display, which mean 
that the translations were found and used, they were not displayed because of 
those ugly fonts issues.

Munzir,
You told me there is another "Arabic only" font. Well that's not good. You 
see, when you do work for Mandrake, you do it for that company, not for 
yourself or this group. They decided to use a unified desktop. That means 
among others, that both KDE,GNOME and the install have the same look. That 
means also fonts. BTW, you contact them and tell them what fonts to use when 
you choose arabic in localedrake. They will be set for kde and gnome, and 
THAT font should used in drakx.


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