--- Alaa Abd El Fattah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 15 Jan 2005 23:29:04 +0000 (GMT) > Muhammad Alkarouri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > May I use the opportunity to say that it is my opinion that it will > > not get'done'? I cannot see a clear 'end of the road' for 'Arabize > > FOSS' as long as there is new FOSS everyday.. > > that would actually be a very bad thing.
+1 > > I think the proper way to do arabization is for it to be transparent to > the developers, the current system where we have to test each an every > app for Unicaode, Bidi and shaping and we have to patch each and every > app for unicode bidi and shaping is ridiculous. > > I'm hoping core libraries would one day do these things for us that all > GUI apps would automatically support arabic. > On this, true. I meant things like translation. > the work might never end, but that should be because of new needs not > just because of new foss. > > and IMO this is part of the problem, we don't have the manpower to run > after each and every little project, Arabeyes should focus on broad > strokes that make arabic support automatic. Good point. I have touched on that on my next message, see http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/general/2005/January/msg00071.html > > we could for instance lobby FreeDesktop.org for something like this. > > cheers, > Alaa > -- > http://www.manalaa.net > > ultimate_answer_t deep_thought(void) { > sleep(years2secs(7500000)); > return 42; > } > Salam, Muhammad Alkarouri Was it 6*7:) ___________________________________________________________ ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - all new features - even more fun! http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com
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