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Re: Fwd: Adding Arabic support to Ark Linux
- To: General Arabization Discussion <general at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: Fwd: Adding Arabic support to Ark Linux
- From: Ossama Khayat <okhayat at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2005 00:23:19 -0800 (PST)
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Salam,
In passing, did any one respond to this mail/request?
If not, we should, though late a bit.
- Ossama
--- Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> Bero, I'm forwarding this on your behalf to solicit a wider response, do
> please check the mailing-list archives for any replies if you opt not to
> subscribe to the 'general' list.
>
> http://www.arabeyes.org/mailinglists.php
>
> Sorry for the delay.
>
> - Nadim
[...]
> From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero at arklinux dot org>
> To: contact at arabeyes dot org
> Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:22:39 +0200
> Subject: Adding Arabic support to Ark Linux
>
> Hi,
> we'd like to add support for Arabic to Ark Linux (http://www.arklinux.org/).
> Unfortunately none of us has a clue about Arabic - so we have a couple of
> questions:
> - You offer several Arabic fonts for download - do we need all of them, or
> are all but one optional? [We're trying to keep our base install small, so
> unless they're needed, we'd pick 1 or 2 fonts for the base install and put
> the rest on an add-on CD - same we're doing for all the extra iso-8859-1
> fonts]
> - Is there anything special we have to do to get right-to-left support, or
> does the current KDE [3.3.1] take care of this by itself? Do we have to
> add any libraries?
> - How do you input Arabic characters? Do you have "normal" keyboards,
> or do you need an IM (like Chinese or Japanese)? If the latter, what's IM
> would you recommend?
> - Our installer is built with Qt/Embedded - is there any Arabic support for
> this? (Just displaying the characters is enough, we don't need any text
> input during installation)
>
> Thanks,
> bero
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