On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 04:58:59PM +0330, Arash Zeini wrote: > On Saturday 19 January 2002 11:13 pm, Philip Blundell wrote: > > On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 19:50, Arash Zeini wrote: > > > We are considering a translation of the installation messages into Farsi. > > > > > > >From what I read I get that UTF-8 is not only supported but also the > > > > desired > > > > > > charset. > > > > > > Does anybody have any experience with the support for RTL languages > > > (Farsi is one) under Debian? > > > > Although I've never tried, I would doubt very much that the existing > > installer will work properly with RTL text. Having support for this > > would be very cool and I would love to see it in the new > > debian-installer codebase, but I suspect there is little hope of making > > this happen in time for woody. > > Could you point me to the release plan for Debian? > > > The existing installer frontend is based on the newt library (which in > > turn is based on slang); the first step would be to check whether they > > support RTL properly. > > I will try to find out more about these libraries and see if I can pinpoint > what the situation is. > Are the installer frontend developers present on this list or on general > Debian lists?
woody is in a freeze process; and boot-floppies is at end-of-life (woody will be the final release). That's why debian-installer is where you were pointed. The installer developers are indeed here, when they're here. I believe joeyh is the lead for debian-installer. -- *------v--------- Installing Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 --------v------* | <http://www.debian.org/releases/woody/installmanual> | | debian-imac (potato): <http://debian-imac.sourceforge.net> | | Chris Tillman [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | May the Source be with you | *----------------------------------------------------------------* -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
