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Bidi support for Linux
- To: linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il
- Subject: Bidi support for Linux
- From: matial(at-nospam)il.ibm.com
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 08:23:29 +0300
- Delivered-To: linux.org.il-linux-il@linux.org.il
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
IBM (my employer) has, as you may know, vested interest in Linux. Many of
its products are now designed to run (also) on Linux. For these products
to succeed on the Israeli market, Linux needs to have a reasonable support
for Hebrew (Bidi). IBM is ready to invest a significant amount of
developers time in order to improve the Bidi support in Linux. Everybody
will benefit.
The team to which I belong has extensive experience of Bidi support,
including in Unix (Motif), but quite limited acquaintance with Linux.
My question is for the seasoned Linux users in this newsgroup: where
should we invest our efforts to make the most good? I know, from
subscribing to this newsgroup for a while, that some Bidi support already
exists or is in development, but I have no organized list. We want to
avoid duplicating work already done or in progress. We want suggestions
about which components are most important. Our aim here is development
tools (KDE, Gnome, etc...) rather than end-user applications (like a word
processor or a picture editor). Now is your chance to ask for the Bidi
support that you always wanted and never had time to do yourself! You may
suggest as many items as you wish, but it will help if you can prioritize
as "Vital", "Important", "Nice to have", etc...
Of course, we don't have unlimited resources, and we don't commit to
anything, but I assure you than I am not wasting your time, and we do
intend to help improve the Bidi support in Linux.
If there is some other lists where I should ask this question, please give
me pointers.
Shalom (Regards), Mati
Globalization Center Of Competency - Bidirectional Scripts
IBM Israel
Phone: +972 2 5870999 ext. 1202 Fax: +972 2 5870333 Mobile:
+972 52 554160
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