On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 20:39 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote: > > > 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. > > > > This is too late reply, but I found that all what we need to get man > > pages in Arabic is to have proper Unicode support in groff as, in > > the case of man pages, the RTL and shapping should be handeled by > > the terminal not by groff itself (I found that after using Bruno > > Haible's utf-8 hack) > > Unfortunately, this isn't true. groff really does *format* the man > page, so it has to know both the direction of the text and the metrics > of the used fonts, even for TTYs. > > > Werner so how groff-utf8 extension (http://www.haible.de/bruno/packages-groff-utf8.html ) do it, as it works with me (see this screen shot http://khalid_hosny.manalaa.net/image_galleries/screenshoots/first_arabic_manpage)
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