Well done. In case you don't know, although the text here is RTL (it's arabic, after all). the layout does not seem to be: http://people.debian.org/~bubulle/d-i/screenshots/netcfg-arabic2.png On Mon, 2004-06-21 at 09:53 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > After very hard and deep work by Steve Langasek (using preliminary > work from Shlomi Loubaton), the Debian Installer team is proud to > announce that right-to-left (RTL) languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, > Farsi (Persian) and several others (usually called "BiDi support") are > now supported by the first stage installation process of Debian. > > This work needed to include patches to libraries used for user input > during the installation phase, in text mode. > > The very latest netinst images built by the Debian Installer team, > with BiDi support, are available at: > > http://gluck.debian.org/cdimage/testing/sid_d-i/i386/current/sarge-i386-netinst.iso > (other arches also include BiDi support, replace "i386" by your > architecture name in the above link) > > Screenshots: > http://people.debian.org/~bubulle/d-i/screenshots/ > > Debian is thus now, as far as we know, the very first Linux > distribution to support RTL languages from the beginning of its > installation process. > > A lot of work remains to be done, for instance keeping RTL and BiDi > working when the distribution is installed, or right-aligning dialog > boxes, but a giant step has been achieved. > > We also need to properly support BiDi/RTL with debconf in the > installation 2nd stage and at the console, after rebooting. The > not_working/2nd_stage-arabic.png screenshot at the above URL shows > that this currently is not the case (it is left-to-right displayed). > > This work is part of the general globalization process of Debian and > specifically our installation software, which now includes translation > in 40 languages, covering about 68% of the world population. > > > -- Murray Cumming [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.murrayc.com
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