On Yaum al-Khamees 15 Sha`ban 1425 02:00, Mohammed Sameer wrote: > On Wed, Sep 29, 2004 at 03:43:42PM +0100, Muhammad Alkarouri wrote: > > On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 05:38, Christian Perrier wrote: > > [...] > > > > > As a last minute fix, because of the upcoming release, I have changed > > > the default locales to be UTF-8 for Arabic, and the 2nd stage then > > > uses jfbterm as it does for Asian or Hebrew languages. > > > > Actually, we prefer Arabic support in UTF-8 always. You can almost > > regard ISO-8859-6 as a legacy. So you will probably get other feedback > > like 'yes, we need UTF-8, once and for all'. > > Yes, I agree here, But please try to keep the ISO-6 locale in debian, U > never know when you might need/use it.
I agree. In Mandrake for example we have ar_XX for ISO-8859-6 locales whereas ar_XX.UTF-8 for UTF-8 locales. -- Munzir Taha PGP Key available gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.mandrakesecure.net F0671821 Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer Mandrake Club Member Maintainer of the Open Arabic Bugs Project at http://wiki.arabeyes.org/OpenBugs Maintainer of Fedora Arabic Translation Project CIW Designer, ICDL, MOUS, Linux+, LPI 101 New Horizons CLC, Riyadh, SA _______________________________________________ Doc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/doc
