Hi all, As you can see below The d-i has Bidi support now. What is needed is translation and testing. in any case if anybody is interesting for trasnlation or have good bandwith for download please inform me.
Best Arash ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: BiDirectional text and right-to-left languages support in Debian Installer Date: Do shanbe 01 Tir 1383 12:23 From: Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Arash Bijanzadeh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ossama Khayat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> After very hard and deep work by Steve Langasek (using preliminary work from Shlomi Loubaton), the Debian Installer team is proud to announce that right-to-left (RTL) languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, Farsi (Persian) and several others (usually called "BiDi support") are now supported by the first stage installation process of Debian. This work needed to include patches to libraries used for user input during the installation phase, in text mode. The very latest netinst images built by the Debian Installer team, with BiDi support, are available at: http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/i386/current/sarge-i386-netin st.iso (other arches also include BiDi support, replace "i386" by your architecture name in the above link) Screenshots: http://people.debian.org/~bubulle/d-i/screenshots/ Debian is thus now, as far as we know, the very first Linux distribution to support RTL languages from the beginning of its installation process. A lot of work remains to be done, for instance keeping RTL and BiDi working when the distribution is installed, or right-aligning dialog boxes, but a giant step has been achieved. We also need to properly support BiDi/RTL with debconf in the installation 2nd stage and at the console, after rebooting. The not_working/2nd_stage-arabic.png screenshot at the above URL shows that this currently is not the case (it is left-to-right displayed). This work is part of the general globalization process of Debian and specifically our installation software, which now includes translation in 40 languages, covering about 68% of the world population. ------------------------------------------------------- -- Television has brought back murder into the home -- where it belongs. -- Alfred Hitchcock _______________________________________________ bna-linuxiran mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bna-linuxiran
