--- Ossama Khayat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I really have no idea about the differences, so I'm CC'ing arabeyes' > "developer" list for help
Ossama, any resolution on this topic ? More below. > --- Denis Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 02:09:00AM -0800, Ossama Khayat wrote: > > > --- Denis Barbier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi folks, > > > > > > > > I am working on forking GNU libc locales for more than 5 months, > > > > and have now something usable. > > > [...] > > > > > > Since this is related to locales, I can't see anything related to RTL > > > languages like Arabic or Hebrew or others. So, is it that these are > > > coming later on for support in Debian or is there any thing we (as > > > Arabic community) have to do about it? > > > > AFAICT there is nothing to do at this level, how scripts are written is > > in the scope of renderer engines like pango. > > > > But I have a question about Arabic: ar_SA has collation rules different > > from other ar_* locales. Can you please tell me which one is right, > > ar_SA or ar_EG? Denis, can you point out what these rules are (sorry, but this is a completely new topic to me (and possibly others)). > > In order to investigate this issue, you can write a file containing > > a list of words, each word on a single line. You sort it manually > > according to Arabic collation rules (you may for instance get words > > from a good dictionary) and compare > > LC_ALL=ar_SA sort file > file1.out > > LC_ALL=ar_EG sort file > file2.out > > When collation rules are right, input and output are identical. Ossama, did you try this ? Can we bring to closure this issue/topic ? Regards & Salam, - Nadim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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