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 .. -- 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 . > > >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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >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" >> > >> >> >> Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail >> account at http://www.eudoramail.com >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > >-- > > Shaul Karl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com