On Sunday 04 January 2004 12:26, Nadim Shaikli wrote: > --- Munzir Taha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Secretely, I took the responsipility/ownership of this task and think I > > managed to find a very nice solution. > > > > This task is: > > - Content Management System (CMS) Arabization > > + CMS's like phpnuke/postnuke/xoops/etc use CP-1256 and NOT UTF-8 > > + Need to instruct module owners to NOT use CP-1256 and use UTF-8 > > instead - This is very important as more and more people opt to use CMS - > > UTF-8 should be the default option at a min > > - Current implementations don't even allow one to use UTF-8 Arabic > > + Need to stress the importance of UTF-8 esp. for open source projects > > --> Involved: > > = NONE > > --> Status/Plan: > > = Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership) > > > > The answer is Drupal. (http://www.drupal.org/) > > Munzir, there was no "right" answer to this task. We need, as is noted, > to educate those developers to use UTF-8 encodings and make that the > default. You might love drupal while others might not, the net is filled > with Arabic phpnuke/postnuke/xoops/etc sites and they are all CP-1256 > (including linux4arab and other so-called opensource advocates primarily > due to short-comings in the packages). In short, an educational campaign > and a mass mailing to the package developers and contributors is needed > to "force" them to revert to UTF-8 as a default.
I agree we need to educate them about using UTF-8. Till then, I would not find any execuse for any open source site which use 1256 encoding without telling us why drupal, webGUI, ... is not up to the task. -- Munzir Taha PGP Key available: gpg --recv-keys --keyserver www.mandrakesecure.net F0671821 Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer Linux Registered User #279362 at http://counter.li.org Mandrake Club member Maintainer of Mandrake Arabization Project Status (MAPS) http://www.arabeyes.org/download/documents/distros/mdkarabicsupport-en/ CIW Designer, ICDL, MOUS New Horizons CLC Riyadh, SA _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
