On Wednesday 02 March 2011 21:48:19 Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Hi, > Please correct me if I'm wrong, but at the moment, Wine doesn't have > yet full Hebrew/Arabic support at the moment. With the correct > encoding you can make Wine show hebrew (in menus etc), but mixing > Hebrew and english still doesn't work and you have to jump through > many hoops to make Wine work well with some hebrew support. > > At the moment, in order to make hebrew work, some considerable > investment is required, be it a paid freelancer(s) to work on it or > group of volunteers. > > As of this Monday, Google is accepting applications from > organizations for Google summer of code (see here: > http://goo.gl/lrt1q ). > > My question: Is there any person, group or organization that can > submit an application for Wine Hebrew support? That way, everyone > wins: The student(s) will be paid by Google (I think they'll be happy > to accept Wine & Hebrew/Arabic/BiDi to GSOC), and the Linux community > will finally have (if everything goes well) a decent Hebrew/Arabic > implementation in Wine. > > What do you think?
I think much of your above description of Wine as related to mixing R>L and L>R languages is equally applicable to the text module(s) used in any of the editors I have used, It's deplorable. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
