Re: Arabic translation for urpmi.po

Ma'moun Diraneyya <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.mandrake.cooker.internationalization
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hmm, what about the last two strings in the file? it seems they will  
be shown in graphical interface:

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550: Graphical front end to install RPM files
551: Software Installer
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Best Regards,
Ma'moun M. Diraneyya

On ٢٦/١٠/٢٠٠٩, at ٨:١٥ م, Ma'moun Diraneyya wrote:

>
> 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
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