Re: Arabic translation for urpmi.po

On ٢٦/١٠/٢٠٠٩, at ٧:٤٤ م, Olav Dahlum wrote:

> Ma'moun Diraneyya wrote:
>> Looks like urpmi.po is translation for command-line utilities, am I  
>> right?
>
> Yep.

Thanks for confirming this.

>
>> I'm asking because if so, I should remove all Arabic characters  
>> from the ar.po, as we don't translate any string that will be shown  
>> in the command-line. That's because most of the terminal emulators  
>> don't natively support bidirectional languages such as Arabic.
>
> Some don't support it, but there's also the ones with support for  
> it, like Konsole. But this is your decision to take. :-)

Yes, that's right. But, until all of them support BiDi natively, I  
shouldn't make anything wrong for someone using BiDi-unsupported  
terminal. That will completely make the utility unusable with reversed- 
rendered and unshaped characters.

>
> - Olav.


Best Regards,
Ma'moun M. Diraneyya