--- Nadim Shaikli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bero, I'm forwarding this on your behalf to solicit a wider response, do > please check the mailing-list archives for any replies if you opt not to > subscribe to the 'general' list. > > http://www.arabeyes.org/mailinglists.php > > Sorry for the delay. > > - Nadim [...]
> From: Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:22:39 +0200 > Subject: Adding Arabic support to Ark Linux > > Hi, > we'd like to add support for Arabic to Ark Linux (http://www.arklinux.org/). > Unfortunately none of us has a clue about Arabic - so we have a couple of > questions: > - You offer several Arabic fonts for download - do we need all of them, or > are all but one optional? [We're trying to keep our base install small, so > unless they're needed, we'd pick 1 or 2 fonts for the base install and put > the rest on an add-on CD - same we're doing for all the extra iso-8859-1 > fonts] One mono-space font and one regular font should be fine. Try to pick one thats not too fancy and decorative. ae_AlMohannad would seem like a good choice. > - Is there anything special we have to do to get right-to-left support, or > does the current KDE [3.3.1] take care of this by itself? Do we have to > add any libraries? No, Fribidi is absolutely necessary. You will be happy to know that Fribidi isn't Arabic-specific. If you include Fribidi then Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew and Urdu will all have proper RTL support. > - How do you input Arabic characters? Do you have "normal" keyboards, > or do you need an IM (like Chinese or Japanese)? If the latter, what's IM > would you recommend? Thankfully Arabic doesn't require any IM. I just type "setxkbmap ar" and start typing away. > - Our installer is built with Qt/Embedded - is there any Arabic support for > this? (Just displaying the characters is enough, we don't need any text > input during installation) I think its supported but I'm not sure. Anyone? > Thanks And thanks to you for including Arabic :-) __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
