On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Liviu Andronic <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 1:47 AM, Lex Trotman <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> My hard drive failed yesterday morning, so after installing a new one >> I decided to update the OS and installed the latest Linux Mint. >> >> Imagine my surprise when the Geany icon wasn't the familiar teapot, >> but https://github.com/elextr/geany_stuff/raw/master/geany.svg. >> >> I initially blamed Ubuntu since Geany was installed from its >> repository, sorry, but in fact Mint is overriding it with a theme. >> >> This looks like Arabic script to me, so Frank, can any of your >> translators tell us what it says? >> > Well, Geany makes allusion to a 'genie' or 'jinn' [1], which is most > known from the (Arabic, I assume) tale of Aladdin [2]. If you click on > the 'Arabic' article in [1] you will be directed to 'جيني', which, to > the best of my understanding of Arabic script (which is null), uses > the same spelling as in the *.svg file [3]. So I would go with 'جيني' > meaning Geany, in Arabic script. It would be cool to have this on the > the main page of geany.org! > I may have gotten carried away with the links. Go to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geany
and click on the Arabic link, and you will get http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/جيني containing 'Geany' spelled in Arabic. Liviu > Any Arab reader or speaker please correct. Regards > Liviu > > [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genie > [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alladin > [3] http://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/جيني > >> Things like "Geany" or "Worlds best editor" would be acceptable, but >> "may your code be infested with bugs" might not :) >> >> Cheers >> Lex >> _______________________________________________ >> Geany-devel mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany-devel >> > > > > -- > Do you know how to read? > http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm > http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader > Do you know how to write? > http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail > -- Do you know how to read? http://www.alienetworks.com/srtest.cfm http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfce4-dict#speed-reader Do you know how to write? http://garbl.home.comcast.net/~garbl/stylemanual/e.htm#e-mail _______________________________________________ Geany-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany-devel
