On Saturday 19 January 2002 11:13 pm, Philip Blundell wrote: > On Sat, 2002-01-19 at 19:50, Arash Zeini wrote: > > We are considering a translation of the installation messages into Farsi. > > > > >From what I read I get that UTF-8 is not only supported but also the > > > desired > > > > charset. > > > > Does anybody have any experience with the support for RTL languages > > (Farsi is one) under Debian? > > Although I've never tried, I would doubt very much that the existing > installer will work properly with RTL text. Having support for this > would be very cool and I would love to see it in the new > debian-installer codebase, but I suspect there is little hope of making > this happen in time for woody.
Could you point me to the release plan for Debian? > The existing installer frontend is based on the newt library (which in > turn is based on slang); the first step would be to check whether they > support RTL properly. I will try to find out more about these libraries and see if I can pinpoint what the situation is. Are the installer frontend developers present on this list or on general Debian lists? Arash -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
