Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Why can't hebrew support be part of general-use products? MS Office2000 > comes to mind as a proof that it can be done. Do you know the difference between how much MS Office 2000 development costs was versus how much Israely people are willing to invent in Hebrew support for linux for no profit ? > The main missing piece is to add support into the graphics tool-kit (i.e. > gtk, qt). Good luck. Look, unless someone goes and write the damn thing, we won't have it. But we just talk about it; the IGLU-way. Talk, not actions. So, we need a simple hebrew editor, that will enable someone to write a letter to his bank. > If you want to translate the user interface you don't need anything else. > > Actually - if you would settle for visual hebrew, and just want to > translate menus, dialogs, etc. - you don't even need bidi support in the > widgets. All you need is that the program would allow the user to select > the font for the gui. > > I've started translating windowmaker and lyx in that way, and it is > suprisingly easy (although takes time to figure out how exactly one > should translate all the terms, etc.). All it takes is a decent > (plain) text editor with support of visual hebrew. You don't have to > rebuild anything. > > Speaking of bidi support: > * hopfully in the coming few monthes hebrew (and bidi) support will be > added to mozilla. Note that the team from ibm-israel that is working on > this project will only test this under win32 and os/2 (and maybe aix), and > they rely on us users to test it on other platforms. > * According to http://mosfet.org bidi support was added to the html module > of KDE2's browser (Konquerer). Anybody here tried this? > > On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Ilya Khayutin wrote: > > > I was talking about full hebrew support, built-in into > > gtk+. Not only a bidi widget but also give the ability > > to create a hebrew UI and so on... This is what we > > really need for Linux hebrew support. There more > > applications then a text editor, a commonisrealy user > > will also want more programs with hebrew support as: > > the gimp , a spreadship and much more... I think we > > should solve the problem from the root of it and not > > provide temporary solutions. > > > > Bye, > > Ilya > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
