Re: iso 8859-6 fonts
>
> yeah RTL is true about arabic . And it could be
>
> solved by making an arabic keymap .
That is the point. As far as I know, The it is far more complex then one tend
to think at first glance, especially when you want multi lingual support.
And the keymap, which can be made quite easily is only an input method. It
does not concern the heart of the problem.
> Just for
>
> curiosity , do you have arabic developers
>
> who maintain arabic fonts/programs ?
http://www.debian.org/devel/developers.loc does not show many. Still, it could
be that no one of them has entered his geographical data and thus does not get
to be on the map. It could also be that some of them are living in other parts
of the world.
Yet I do tend to believe that there are very few Arab developers.
I also believe that there is a great need for developers who will concentrate
on Arabic and, perhaps more importantly, on embedding Arabic, RTL and multi
lingual in the Unix environment.
In any case you can search by specific countries in http://db.debian.org
> If yes , may i know who ? if no , can some one
>
> apply to do so ?
>
You might want to read http://nm.debian.org in order to see how to apply to be
a developer and what you will need in order to become one. However in case you
are new to Unix you might want to wait until you will have more experience.
> Thanks all for your help
>
> --
>
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 02:16:42 David Starner wrote:
> >On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:21:39AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote:
> >> [05:09:10 tmp]$ grep-available -PX xfonts-intl-arabic
> >> Package: xfonts-intl-arabic
> >
> >Which are couple of fonts in an Emacs-only encoding, not useful
> >outside of Emacs.
> >
> >> Please note that in general Linux distros have problems with Arabic that are
> >> much severe then the fonts issue:
> >> The right to left (RTL) direction and the changing of the font according to
> >> context (or something similar) are way from being solved, especially, but not
> >> limited to, text consoles. And these are far difficult problems then one might
> >> think at first look.
> >
> >For a large set of programs, the solution is using QT 3.0 or libgtk 2.4
> >(or is it 3.0?).
> >
> >> Hopefully you will find interest in the ivrix-discuss@ivrix.org.il mailing
> >> list.
> >> Although it is administrated by an Israeli volunteers, it does have
> >> participants from other countries. And this is because the RTL problem is
> >> shared among Arabic and Hebrew.
> >
> >But RTL is only a part of the problem. Arabeyes is a much better site
> >for general Arabization, including Arabic font making.
> >
> >--
> >David Starner - dstarner98@aasaa.ofe.org
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> >
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