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Re: Farsi support for the installation



On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 04:58:59PM +0330, Arash Zeini wrote:
> 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?

woody is in a freeze process; and boot-floppies is at end-of-life
(woody will be the final release). That's why debian-installer is
where you were pointed.

The installer developers are indeed here, when they're here. I believe
joeyh is the lead for debian-installer.

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