FriBidi just appears in the subject, huh? On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Anmar Oueja wrote:
> > FYI > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: NEWT Support for UTF-8 and Fribidi > Resent-Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 01:07:12 -0600 (CST) > Resent-From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 06:45:28 +0100 > From: Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > My answers will probably be far from complete...but others are welcome > to correct my mistakes. > > > 1. is Newt UTF-friendly ? and if it is who is the code maintainer ? and > > is there a mailing list for it. I could not find any > > I'm pretty sure it is (UTF friendly), as it perfectly handles > japanese, russian, greek (and Arabic, at least when it comes to UTF-8 > encoded characters) stuff. > > The newt package is maintained by Alastair. > > So, as he is currently away or less active, a NMU may be proposed by > the debian-boot team, if needed. > > > 2. is libtextwrap UTF-8 friendly ? > > Ask maintainer. http://packages.debian.org/libtextwrap > > > > > 3. Should we have newt lib or should we hack cdebconf/newt.c file ? > > Most likely we will need to hack newt lib. then were should we start. > > > > 4. is there s CVS we need to check changes in and who should we talk to > > to give them the patches. > > If Alastair has a CVS for newt, it may be on alioth.... > > IMHO, you should first "apt-get source newt", hack it down as you > need, then propose a patch. > > I may help in testing it by manually building ISO images with it along > with complete Arabic translations. I finally managed to be able to > build hand-crafted ISO images. > > The most difficult is our 9 hours time lag...:) > > > > _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
