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Re: (forw) The debian-l10n-korean and debian-l10n-arabic have been created



Hi,

I have no problem with the decision. Just had to mention the bidi issue.
Now, let hope I'll have enough trafic to justify a -hebrew list (-:

> Quoting Denis Barbier (barbier@linuxfr.org):
>
>> This topic can be discussed here on debian-i18n.
>
> Looks like Denis and I share point of views here..:-)
>
> For Lior, one argument "against" (or temporarily against) a dedicated
> -bidi list is that indeed specific problems of RTL languages probably
> need to be quite widely exposed rather than kept in a kind of very
> specialised area (another word came to my mind but would have sounded
> offensive, I'm afraid, and the last thing I want is hurting people's
> feeling).
>
> I think that all people involved in i18n and l10n must be aware of RTL
> specificities just like they have to be aware of the specific issues
> of languages such as CJK (Chinese-Japanese-Korean). -i18n needs to
> keep this "gathering point" behaviour.
>
> The use of subject markers can be encouraged for this, of course, such
> as "[RTL]" or "[BIDI]" or whatever appropriate.
>
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