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Re: Arabic & Hebrew



On Sun, 16 Jul 2000, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> If you'll look at Linuxtoday.com - or at
> http://linuxtoday.com/news_story.php3?ltsn=2000-07-15-027-06-NW-CY-SW - you'll
> find that Linuxvision.com released some sort of GTK with Arabic support.
> 
> Since Arabic & Hebrew are essentially the same (as in right to left writing) -
> would someone mind moving those patches so we can use it the same as the Arab
> people use them?

I didn't download it yet (I don't like to register). But simply from
taking a look at their site and their features list:

|* Supports most Gtk+ and GNOME applications for Arabic input and output. 

The big news. bidirectional support in gtk. BTW: did they also try to
"reflect" widgets (i.e.: a text label for a control on a dialog box should
appear after the control, not before it). Anyway - this is a very welcomed
thing even without it (If only it were free)

|* Supports text mode programs in Linux console and gnome-terminal for
|  Arabic input and output. 

As far as I understand it - nothing new. acon has existed for a while for
the console (Note that lately it also got support for hebrew).
As for gnome-terminal - I believe this comes with the gtk stuff, but I'm
not exactly sure.

|* Supports a lot of other applications for Arabic output, like Netscape
|  browser and KDE  

Read: Arabic fonts (as I understand this)

|* Automatic configuration for some programs. 

Easy enough with gtk - simply edit gtkrc. There's alsoa patch to make it
locale-dependent (that is - it will use different default fonts, depending
on your LANG).

|* The ability to change Sheba options for one or more programs without
|  affecting the global options. 

Configuration at the library-level. Nothing new to kde and gnome.

|* Supports ISO 8859-6 and CP1259 charsets. 

Again - this requires nothing more than a little tweaking of X's config,
to supply the proper fonts and chaacter map.

-- 
Tzafrir Cohen
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir


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