Re: BiDi and RTL

[Tollef Fog Heen <tollef@add.no>]

* Philip Blundell 

| We might possibly get base-config i18n into a woody point release but I
| wouldn't bet on it.  There is no prospect of bidi support appearing in
| this codebase.

You won't.

| Right now I don't know what the situation is with i18n in
| debian-installer, either the status right now or in terms of a
| future roadmap.  I would hope that by the time d-i reaches primetime
| it will have full support for UTF-8.

We want to support UTF-8.  Help is needed in implementing it; there is
no point in us going into the same traps twice.

| Making it work with bi-di is probably going to involve some effort
| from people who are familiar with those particular issues.

Do we have anybody who is?

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