Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-31 Thread Anmar Oueja
Christian Perrier wrote: This is not restricted to Arabic/Hebrew people. Others probably may help on this hot topic. Please read if you happen to have some skills in debconf/slang/programming and just try to imagine if you can help Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Please see http

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-31 Thread Anmar Oueja
Christian Perrier wrote: This is not restricted to Arabic/Hebrew people. Others probably may help on this hot topic. Please read if you happen to have some skills in debconf/slang/programming and just try to imagine if you can help Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Please see http

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-31 Thread Baruch Even
* Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040401 08:35]: > (conclusion : Arabic without shaping is uselessHebrew is probably > OK but some doubt remains.Hebrew translators, please elaborate) Hebrew doesn't need shaping, the standard for hebrew is to do the shaping manually, we actually have

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-31 Thread Christian Perrier
This is not restricted to Arabic/Hebrew people. Others probably may help on this hot topic. Please read if you happen to have some skills in debconf/slang/programming and just try to imagine if you can help Quoting Steve Langasek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Please see http://people.debian.org/~v

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-31 Thread Denis Barbier
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 10:22:44AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > Quoting Anmar Oueja ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hello Alastair: > > > > Can you tell me when this version of fribidi and its patch to slang are > > gonna be in the Debian installer as I like to have them tested ASAP. I > > want to

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 02:24:06PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 10:04:27PM -0800, Anmar Oueja wrote: > > Can you tell me when this version of fribidi and its patch to slang are > > gonna be in the Debian installer as I like to have them tested ASAP. I > > want to get som

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-31 Thread Steve Langasek
On Tue, Mar 30, 2004 at 10:04:27PM -0800, Anmar Oueja wrote: > Can you tell me when this version of fribidi and its patch to slang are > gonna be in the Debian installer as I like to have them tested ASAP. I > want to get some screen shots to get the translators motivated to get > Arabic Support

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-31 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Colin Watson] > Not breaking debootstrap is also important; every time a package in > the base system grows a new dependency, it breaks old d-i images, > making consistent testing difficult. Which is a good argument for starting to use cdebootstrap, which track dependencies automatically. > You

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-31 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > with several that want to push Debian in Iran and Iraq, and we need BTW, official language in Iran if Persian, or Farsi, codename "fa". I've been in touch with a possible translator (the one who did the very few existing fa.po files), but didn't

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 10:50:24AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [Christian Perrier] > > Second stage will NOT be possible because this implies changing the > > "normal" slang libraries and add libfribidi0 to the base system. As > > the base system freeze is decided, it is very unlikely that

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-31 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Petter Reinholdtsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > [Christian Perrier] > > Second stage will NOT be possible because this implies changing the > > "normal" slang libraries and add libfribidi0 to the base system. As > > the base system freeze is decided, it is very unlikely that the > > Release Mana

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-31 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Christian Perrier] > Second stage will NOT be possible because this implies changing the > "normal" slang libraries and add libfribidi0 to the base system. As > the base system freeze is decided, it is very unlikely that the > Release Manager, Antony Towns, decides about an exception. This is rea

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-31 Thread Christian Perrier
Quoting Anmar Oueja ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Hello Alastair: > > Can you tell me when this version of fribidi and its patch to slang are > gonna be in the Debian installer as I like to have them tested ASAP. I > want to get some screen shots to get the translators motivated to get > Arabic Suppor

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-30 Thread Anmar Oueja
Hello Alastair: Can you tell me when this version of fribidi and its patch to slang are gonna be in the Debian installer as I like to have them tested ASAP. I want to get some screen shots to get the translators motivated to get Arabic Support there ASAP :) Your kind response is greatly apprec

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-27 Thread Baruch Even
* Martin Michlmayr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040328 00:24]: > * Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-27 10:10]: > > >Copy to Baruch Even, the fribidi package maintainer > > I have done so ; its present in > > http://people.debian.org/~mckinstry/fribidi for testing > > > > Will diff out t

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-27 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Alastair McKinstry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004-03-27 10:10]: > >Copy to Baruch Even, the fribidi package maintainer > I have done so ; its present in > http://people.debian.org/~mckinstry/fribidi for testing > > Will diff out the patch and forward to Baruch Evan Baruch seems to be busy/inacti

Re: BIDI support in Debian Installer : help needed

2004-03-27 Thread Alastair McKinstry
>Shlomi Loubaton did some work on BIDI (BI-DIrectional langauges >support) for Debian Installer. > >He hacked the slang libraries so that some handling of BIDI is added >to it. > >This will probably need adding the libfribidi0 library to Debian >Installer. Thus a libfribidi0-udeb package will proba