Re: Ubuntu Arabic Support

2006-01-03 الحوار Mohammed Sameer
On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:16:13PM -0800, Anmar Oueja wrote: I am talking about a web-based localization tool used by the entire Ubuntu project. The tool is called Rosetta and it is designed to allow the entire Linux community to register projects (i.e. OpenOffice) and start translating it

Re: Ubuntu Arabic Support

2006-01-03 الحوار Ossama Khayat
--- Mohammed Sameer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 02, 2006 at 11:16:13PM -0800, Anmar Oueja wrote: I am talking about a web-based localization tool used by the entire Ubuntu project. The tool is called Rosetta and it is designed to allow the entire Linux community to register

Re: Ubuntu Arabic Support

2006-01-03 الحوار Anmar Oueja
On 03/01/06, Ossama Khayat [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- snip-- Anmar, can you help us with setting this up? I'm willing to help as needed too. -- snip-- Hello Ossama: I suggest we get on a thread to discuss how we should factor Rosetta in. I do agree with M. Sameer's points but I think Rosetta

Rosetta Questions

2006-01-03 الحوار Anmar Oueja
This thread is to try and figure out how to best factor Rosetta use in Arabeyes.org localization efforts. Objective: come up with the best way or questions we need answered in order to documet and guide translators who wish to use Rosetta instead of kBabel/CVS combo. Some thoughts Pros: 1. Web

Re: Ubuntu Arabic Support

2006-01-03 الحوار Christian Perrier
Chances are you guys know about this and already working on it as I see Ossama's name on some of the files in the link posted above. I am This is mostly because several files in Ubuntu.come from Debian and thus reflect Ossama's work to translate the installer and related packages. There

Re: Rosetta Questions

2006-01-03 الحوار Ossama Khayat
--- Anmar Oueja [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This thread is to try and figure out how to best factor Rosetta use in Arabeyes.org localization efforts. [...] Other than the questions answered in the FAQ[1] page, I think we have to check how it's gonna deal with checked out files. For example, say

Unicode code to force showing a character isolated

2006-01-03 الحوار Youssef Chahibi
السلام عليكم First question: Is there any Unicode code to force showing an Arabic character isolated even if it's not ? I think it will be useful for abbreviations to avoid using spaces or dots between letter. Second question: Is there any Unicode code to force showing an Arabic character

Translation: DVD and CD

2006-01-03 الحوار Youssef Chahibi
السلام عليكم What do you suggest for CD and DVD? I personnaly use simple Qurs (قرص) for CD just like we can replace CD by disk with no ambiguities. DVD is Digital Video Disk or Digital Versatile Disk but in IT context it is generally Digital Versatile Disk. قرص متعدد الإمكانات is long , قرص

Re: Unicode code to force showing a character isolated

2006-01-03 الحوار Mohammed Sameer
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006 at 10:14:09PM +, Youssef Chahibi wrote: السلام عليكم First question: Is there any Unicode code to force showing an Arabic character isolated even if it's not ? I think it will be useful for abbreviations to avoid using spaces or dots between letter. Second

Re: Unicode code to force showing a character isolated

2006-01-03 الحوار Youssef Chahibi
Le Yaum al-Thulatha 3 Thu al-Hijjah 1426 23:04, Mohammed Sameer a écrit : You can use the unicode presentation forms. But it's not the Right Thing (TM). السلام عليكم Are you it is the only solution ? I want a character that will generated a certain fixed position after any letter. Using the

Re: Rosetta Questions

2006-01-03 الحوار Mohammed Adnène Trojette
On Tue, Jan 03, 2006, Youssef Chahibi wrote: - Editing Arabic from a web browser is very annoying. Mozilla Firefox for example doesn't handle Bidi correctly, so you easily get everything messed up. The new Mandriva website ( Which I am working on ) uses eZ as a CMS, when it comes to Arabic,

Re: Unicode code to force showing a character isolated

2006-01-03 الحوار Mohammed Yousif
--- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --- Von: Youssef Chahibi [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: Mohammed Sameer [EMAIL PROTECTED], Documentation and Translation doc@arabeyes.org Betreff: Re: Unicode code to force showing a character isolated Datum: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 23:18:15 + Le Yaum al-Thulatha 3 Thu

Re: Unicode code to force showing a character isolated

2006-01-03 الحوار Youssef Chahibi
Le Yaum al-Arbi'a 4 Thu al-Hijjah 1426 00:11, Mohammed Yousif a écrit : U+200C ZWNJ and U+200D ZWJ are what you are looking for. Thnx ___ Doc mailing list Doc@arabeyes.org http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/doc

Re: Rosetta Questions

2006-01-03 الحوار Christian Perrier
Cons: It is not completely Free Software Please also consider Pootle (http://pootle.wordforge.{org|net}) The Debian i18n crew is currently considering adapting Pootle for its own needs in case the Freenes issues with Rosetta cannot be sorted out.