--- Osama ALASSIRY <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 04:15, Nadim Shaikli wrote: > > > --- Ossama Khayat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I had a visit to your nice site today, and > noticed that our website > > > and other usefull websites aren't listed there. > > > > The site Ossama is talking about :-) is, > > > > http://www.arabiclinux.org > > > > Haisam, this is a site you admin, right ? If not, > we need to bounce > > all these emails to whomever does (ooops :-) > > Sorry, it's mine!!! > > The site is not intended to be a "real site" yet, it > is currently just > one of the test sites for nashr.net (a closed source > arabic - web based > - web publishing system ) > > > A couple of quick comments. > > > > 1. On Arabiclinux.org's main page there is a > '3eyoon AlArab' blurb/News > > item. If that is about Arabeyes, please > replace '3eyoon AlArab' with > > 'Arabeyes' (3arabAyes - note our logo :-) and > do please include a > > link in that article to www.arabeyes.org (so > that there is a continuation > > to the article). If the article is about > something/someone else, then > > I'm rather confused :-) > > > > This is just a fixed up machine translation (using > almisbar), of some > text from arabeyes.org... It will be fixed. > > > 2. The page is in CP-1256. I highly encourage > you and others to refrain > > from using that encoding and esp. with regard > to Open Source projects. > > We need to move one and all away from that > encoding and all things > > proprietary and embrace the use of UTF-8. I > am just very troubled to > > see Arabic Linux and Open Source sites > carrying that encoding (and > > there was been many of late from linux4arab to > virtually all the LUGs). > > > > Using CP-1256 tells me we are sending the > wrong message. > > > > It is only cp-1256 because "nashr.net" only suports > cp-1256, most of the > intended users will be windows users, and cp-1256 is > even supported by > other operating systems. the rationale of the > nashr.net team is that it > is the best codepage to use since it is an "arabic > only" system, and > utf-8 would mean about two bytes/character for all > the arabic text. > > > I am also calling on 1-2 people (volunteers > anyone) to look into the > > availability and usability of Arabic (using UTF-8 > of course) within phpNuke > > and postNuke. We need to tell those open source > projects to have Arabic > > packages be shipped as UTF-8 pages with CP-1256 > available as an option > > (not the other way around). > > > > Salam. > > > > - Nadim > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site > design software > > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > > _______________________________________________ > > General mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general > > Osama ALASSIRY > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > Wisdom: I hate dying. > -- Dave Johnson > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general >
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