Re: Arabic Translation for the Debian installer

[Anmar Oueja <anmar@canada.com>]

thanks Christian:

Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Anmar Oueja (anmar@canada.com):
>
> > Hello all:
> >
> > Just wanted to let you know that Arabic translation of the installer 
> > have gone up to 39% in 3 days. We are moving quite nicely and should 
> > have the whole thing finished in a week or so.
>
>
> I think this should be commited ASAP, just after Joey announces that
> commits to alioth are OK.
great. well i am not a debian developer so no write access to cvs but i 
have a friend who is and i plan on getting him to commit the stuff himself.

> However, I think this should go in the upcoming "beta-2" branch
> because of the lack for BIDI implementation in beta-2

Agreed.

> (I commited the languagelist.l10n etry but that wasn't a very good idea)

well the commmited file had some problems. (arabic wise) I am looking 
into it soon.

> > What is the status of BIDI implementation. I heard nothing from nobody. 
> > Please let us know as it is very very important for us to have debian 
> > accessible to the Arab world.
>
>
>
> Alastair was working on it as far as I know...but didn't give news
> recently (holiday, or week-end, or whatever, I guess).
 Yeah Alastair was sick for a while. I hope he gets better.

p.s. we are already at 46 % today... :)

Thanks

Anmar
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