On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> Hello, > > I asked this before on the openoffice mailing list and those people told > me to go asking in a debian specific forum, which let me to repost to > the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, but that seems to be mainly > a developers list ... so here it is again: > > I am running Sid and have installed OO 1.1.0-1, including several > language support packages for my polyglot wife. Now I am at a > loss of how to make ooffice work such that she can choose between > Arabic, Spanish, Turkish, French, German or English at startup. > > For arabic I did: > - dpkg-reconfigure locales > --> generating ar_LB.ISO-8859-6 and ar_LB.UTF-8 > - apt-get install xfonts-intl-arabic > - LANG=ar_LB openoffice (same problem with LANG=ar_LB.ISO-8859-6 or > LANG=ar_LB.UTF-8) > > But this leads to: I18N: X Window System doesn't support locale "ar_LB" > > What am I missing? > > She is threatening to revert to evil empire software! Help! > > Joh > Hi Johannes, have you tried these sites: http://www.linuxiran.org http://www.arabeyes.org On a side note: MS choose to support hebrew (a R TO L language like arabic) in windows but stop supporting it in the mac version. As a result, projects like OO can make great headway in both the arabic and hebrew communities because of MS's hubris. HTH -Kev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
