Re: Farsi support for the installation
On Saturday 19 January 2002 11:13 pm, Philip Blundell wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 19:50, Arash Zeini wrote:
> > We are considering a translation of the installation messages into Farsi.
> >
> > >From what I read I get that UTF-8 is not only supported but also the
> > > desired
> >
> > charset.
> >
> > Does anybody have any experience with the support for RTL languages
> > (Farsi is one) under Debian?
>
> Although I've never tried, I would doubt very much that the existing
> installer will work properly with RTL text. Having support for this
> would be very cool and I would love to see it in the new
> debian-installer codebase, but I suspect there is little hope of making
> this happen in time for woody.
Could you point me to the release plan for Debian?
> The existing installer frontend is based on the newt library (which in
> turn is based on slang); the first step would be to check whether they
> support RTL properly.
I will try to find out more about these libraries and see if I can pinpoint
what the situation is.
Are the installer frontend developers present on this list or on general
Debian lists?
Arash
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