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Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed



On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 10:22:44AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
> Quoting Anmar Oueja (anmar@canada.com):
> > Hello Alastair:
> > 
> > Can you tell me when this version of fribidi and its patch to slang are 
> > gonna be in the Debian installer as I like to have them tested ASAP. I 
> > want to get some screen shots to get the translators motivated to get 
> > Arabic Support there ASAP :)
> 
> The work is currently not done by Alastair (busy busy busy man...).
> 
> Shlomi Loubaton made some preliminary work by patching slang and
> introducing a new function for displaying BIDI text.

Maybe for Hebrew, the text frontend could be tested more easily, by
writing
  exec /usr/bin/fribidi /usr/share/debconf/frontend -o d-i /usr/bin/main-menu
in /sbin/di-main-menu and providing a fribidi-udeb package?

Denis



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