On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 08:11 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > I'm a member of an Arabic team ( arabeyes.org) working in localizing > > Linux (and other *nx like systems). > > > > Recently, we are working in translating manpages and I'm the > > coordinator of that project, but unfortunately I found that groff > > doesn't support Arabic at all (using 1.19.1 version) and all what I > > got is some meaningless characters, I did some googling and > > searching in this mailing list and what I found is that no way to > > use Arabic with groff now - I hop that I'm wrong -. > > I'm very sorry to say that you are right. groff doesn't support > right-to-left scripts, and it won't do that in the future except you > find a good guy who wants to implement that. Additionally, it has > absolutely no support for a shaping engine necessary for real Arabic > processing. > That is too bad for me now, but thanks for your replay and I'll tray to find someone who could help in that.
> It really hurts me to say that but I think that the cleanest way > currently is to use an external man2xxx (for example, man2html) > translator. That is too bad for me now, but thanks for your replay and I'll tray to find someone who could help in that. ---------- Khaled Hosny _______________________________________________ Groff mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/groff
