Re: iso 8859-6 fonts
fortunately im not not newbie to unix . like
i said i was curious to know about arabization
in debian . and i would like to participate in
that feild . I think i need a recomendation
from a debian developer ..
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On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 22:35:47 Shaul Karl wrote:
>>
>> yeah RTL is true about arabic . And it could be
>>
>> solved by making an arabic keymap .
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>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.
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>> Just for
>>
>> curiosity , do you have arabic developers
>>
>> who maintain arabic fonts/programs ?
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>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
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>> If yes , may i know who ? if no , can some one
>>
>> apply to do so ?
>>
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>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
>>
>> --
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>> 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
>> >Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org
>> >When the aliens come, when the deathrays hum, when the bombers bomb,
>> >we'll still be freakin' friends. - "Freakin' Friends"
>> >
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