Re: Mandrake l10n to Arabic

Diego Iastrubni <[email protected]> Thu, 15 Apr 2004 13:31:01 +0300
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mandrake.cooker.internationalization,gmane.comp.internationalization.arabeyes.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
savah al hair!
I would say more then 3 months, since I have this new mail for more then th=
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time....

anyway, if you use acca (accon whatever) my patch is useless. unless arabic=
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shaping in incorporated into fribidi (as it should be in last march, this i=
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what I have been hearing since December), not usable for you.

Well.... what do you want to know about this hack?

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=E1 =F2=EC =E9=E3=E9 Youcef Rabah Rahal:
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> Hi,
>
> This email has been hiding in my mailbox for almost 3 months now (sorry
> about that, I totally forgot about it :-). I forward it to
> [email protected] so maybe someone can take a look at it.
>
> Regards,
>
> On Thursday 22 January 2004 23:42, Diego Iastrubni wrote:
> > Hi Youcef,
> >
> > Do you get arabic (reversed and shaped) under the console for urpm*
> > commands?
> >
> > If you don't, I have done some hacks which enable bidi rendering of
> > output messages from urpm*. I have tested them for hebrew, but since the
> > hacks use fribidi, I think it will work even for arabic. (can fribidi
> > also handle shaping? if not  we can hack it)
> >
> > If this does not help you, there is a project in arabeyes which display=
es
> > a file containing arabic into the console no? see my hacks and try doing
> > the same for you app.
> >
> > http://iglu.org.il/mdkhe/urpmi/
> >
> > On Wednesday 21 January 2004 23:34, Youcef Rabah Rahal wrote:
> > > Hello Pablo,
> > >
> > > I would like to do a follow-up for the email I sent you 2 days ago,
> > > which has not been answered yet :-)
> > >
> > > I would like to stress upon our will to have this issue (Mandrake l10n
> > > to Arabic) resolved as soon as possible to provide the Arabic user wi=
th
> > > a fully professional Arabic-friendly distribution: Installation + KDE
> > > and GNOME localized. The latter, as you know, is already being
> > > addressed by Arabeyes.org.
> > >
> > > Could you please answer the questions below:
>
> - --
> Youcef R. Rahal
> Arabeyes.org
> http://www.arabeyes.org/~rahal
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