Hi Herouth,
OpenOffice build 643 which is due out in a few days from now will have
bidi suport. The support is not a patch, it is a very thoroughly done
low level internationalization using IBM's ICU library. The work was done
by Sun's Hamburg office group lead by Dieter Loeschky. The technical
approach is more serious than IBM's bidi patch approach.
The 643 build is the first of a series of build leading up to a final
release in April 2003 of OO and SO with fully localized Hebrew and Arabic
support for all OO and SO components.
What we are missing now are OpenType fonts with diacritics ("nikud" in
Hebrew) data tables GPOS and GSUB. Sun is planning to contribute fonts
based on the Hebrew and Arabic TrueType fonts in Solaris9. These fonts
will be OpenType makeovers of the Solaris fonts. Sun might also purchase a
few higher quality fonts from a local vendor and provide them with SO
but not with OO.
I am coordinating the technical side of requirements definition and
testing for Hebrew SO/OO for Sun Israel. Motti Sadovsky at Sun in
Herzliya is coordinating the business side. He has been in contact with
some Israeli government people who expressed interest in contributing to
the project in some way. We have also assembled a group of beta testers
and some test plans.
Regards,
- yba
On Wed, 2 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Quoting Ely Levy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > As usuall the stupidity of the israeli goverment.
> > They won't join the europian project of making a file format which is not
> > word specific. They would not join sun's efford to make openoffice hebrew.
>
> Is there a working version of the Sun Hebrew thingy? Because if not, I don't
> blame the government for not investing in vaporware, and preferring a working
> solution (albeit buggy).
>
> Herouth
>
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