Re: Fonts for distribution

2006-03-07 Thread Erdal Ronahi
Hi, are there any free fonts out there that are known to support the variants of Arabic script well? We have particular problems with Kurdish which has some diacritics not used in other languages. There are a lot of fonts for standard arabic script, but less for variants. I could not find any suit

Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-07 Thread Edward Hervey
Hi Davyd, Nice work, but I noticed several (typo) mistakes in the GStreamer section. Here is the proposed fixed/updated section with slight rewrites to make it easier to read: """ GNOME 2.14 uses the technology of GStreamer 0.10. The GStreamer multimedia framework is a powerful, pluggable audi

Re: Fonts for distribution

2006-03-07 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Tue, 7 Mar 2006, Erdal Ronahi wrote: > Hi, > > are there any free fonts out there that are known to support the variants of > Arabic script well? We have particular problems with Kurdish which has some > diacritics not used in other languages. There are a lot of fonts for > standard arabic scri

Re: Fonts for distribution

2006-03-07 Thread Nicolas Spalinger
> Hi, > > are there any free fonts out there that are known to support the > variants of Arabic script well? We have particular problems with Kurdish > which has some diacritics not used in other languages. There are a lot > of fonts for standard arabic script, but less for variants. I could not >

Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-07 Thread Tommi Vainikainen
On 2006-03-07T11:34:25+0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > GStreamer 0.10 will also allow users to take advantage of multimedia > plugins distributed by 3rd party vendors to offer support for licensed > codecs for which no legal plugins are available. These may include > support for AC3, WMA, MP3 and

Re: Fonts for distribution

2006-03-07 Thread Erdal Ronahi
Hi, Take a look at the Scheherazade and Lateef smart fonts By Jonathan Kewand Bob Hallissy from SIL: http://scripts.sil.org/ArabicFontsThey're not free as in freedom yet, but will probably be released underthe OFL (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL ) in the future. Yes, I know them. They have all the ch

Re: string freeze confusion

2006-03-07 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > روز پنجشنبه، 2006-03-02 ساعت 21:20 -0500، Behdad Esfahbod نوشت: > > Roozbeh, do you mind drafting > > something about this on the wiki? > > Sure, but I don't really know my way around the wiki. Isn't the > documentation for this stuff (developer's how

Re: string freeze confusion

2006-03-07 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
On Fri, 3 Mar 2006, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > روز پنجشنبه، 2006-03-02 ساعت 20:10 -0500، Behdad Esfahbod نوشت: > > Nobody knows that > > something like this needs to be marked for translation, because > > there's no rule saying so anywhere. > > You're right of course, but I am coming to the belief

Re: string freeze confusion

2006-03-07 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
روز سه‌شنبه، 2006-03-07 ساعت 06:45 -0500، Behdad Esfahbod نوشت: > Just put it somewhere so it's not lost and link it from: > > http://live.gnome.org/GnomeI18nDeveloperTips > > and we can always move it later. OK, I put it on the same page under "Innocent unmarked messages". Would you take a lo

Re: Fonts for distribution

2006-03-07 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
روز سه‌شنبه، 2006-03-07 ساعت 10:20 +0100، Erdal Ronahi نوشت: > are there any free fonts out there that are known to support the > variants of Arabic script well? We have particular problems with > Kurdish which has some diacritics not used in other languages. There > are a lot of fonts for standard

Re: Fonts for distribution

2006-03-07 Thread Erdal Ronahi
Hi, Apart from SIL fonts (which are gratis but not free), I don't know any gratis fonts that support the additional Kurdish letters. If you have the time, you can try getting one of the free Arabic fonts and addKurdish support to it. The FarsiWeb Persian fonts are already shippedwith Debian, and

Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-07 Thread James Henstridge
Edward Hervey wrote: > revised version 0.3.a-beta-pre25-coma-7: > > "Gstreamer 0.10 will also give users the possibility to use, where >patents apply, multimedia plugins distributed by 3rd party vendors to >offer support for licensed codecs for which no legal plugins are >available." > > Does t

Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-07 Thread Luis Villa
On 3/7/06, James Henstridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Edward Hervey wrote: > > > revised version 0.3.a-beta-pre25-coma-7: > > > > "Gstreamer 0.10 will also give users the possibility to use, where > >patents apply, multimedia plugins distributed by 3rd party vendors to > >offer support for lic

Re: release notes

2006-03-07 Thread Andre Klapper
hi davyd, great job! > Please feel free to start proofreading them now my 2 cents: in "What's New For Users", "contexual" should be "contextual" i guess. :-) don't know if any of the Evolution changes (at least those visible to the users) should also be included; and i guess i am much too late -

Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-07 Thread Edward Hervey
Hi, I didn't mention any specific country, nor the whole world I just said "for which no legal plugins are available." which seemed to be the most neutral way of putting it.\ I could go on very long about the quality/benifits of licensed and unlicensed codecs, but I think the strong point here

Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-07 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2006-03-07 at 13:44 +, Edward Hervey wrote: > I could go on very long about the quality/benifits of licensed and > unlicensed codecs, but I think the strong point here is that it > *allows* both for everybody's benefits (nothing *forces* you to > download/use them AFAIK). Given the g

Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-07 Thread Edward Hervey
Hi Alan :) On 3/7/06, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Maw, 2006-03-07 at 13:44 +, Edward Hervey wrote: > > I could go on very long about the quality/benifits of licensed and > > unlicensed codecs, but I think the strong point here is that it > > *allows* both for everybody's benefit

Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-07 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2006-03-07 at 14:50 +, Edward Hervey wrote: > "Gstreamer 0.10 will also give users the possibility to use, where > patents apply, multimedia plugins distributed by 3rd party vendors to > offer support for licensed codecs for which no legal plugins are > available." > > Does that ma

Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-07 Thread Alan Cox
On Maw, 2006-03-07 at 16:37 +, Alan Cox wrote: > plugins are not available. The GNOME 2.14 distribution does not itself > contain these non-free components." Actually better yet "contain or endorse" Alan ___ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnom

Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-07 Thread Thomas Vander Stichele
Hi, > > plugins are not available. The GNOME 2.14 distribution does not itself > > contain these non-free components." > > Actually better yet > > "contain or endorse" I'd be completely fine with this standpoint. However, not everyone in the GNOME community necessarily agrees with this. I got

Re: Fonts for distribution

2006-03-07 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
روز سه‌شنبه، 2006-03-07 ساعت 15:51 +0100، Erdal Ronahi نوشت: > Maybe you (Roozbeh, Behdad) can help me select a beautiful one? I am > hardly able to read Arabic script, let alone say something about > esthetics. I'm sorry, but Kurdish font aesthetics is not necessarily the same as Persian font ae

Re: release notes: first draft

2006-03-07 Thread Edward Hervey
Hi again, On 3/7/06, Alan Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Maw, 2006-03-07 at 14:50 +, Edward Hervey wrote: > > "Gstreamer 0.10 will also give users the possibility to use, where > > patents apply, multimedia plugins distributed by 3rd party vendors to > > offer support for licensed codec

cvs-commits-list reports messed up?

2006-03-07 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi, Seems like the commits script is messing up a bit. See this one for example, my commit on vte has been mixed with a translators in straw: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/cvs-commits-list/2006-February/msg06319.html Sorry if it's old news, --behdad http://behdad.org/ "Commandment Three sa

Re: cvs-commits-list reports messed up?

2006-03-07 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
روز سه‌شنبه، 2006-03-07 ساعت 21:42 -0500، Behdad Esfahbod نوشت: > Seems like the commits script is messing up a bit. See this one > for example, my commit on vte has been mixed with a translators > in straw: > > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/cvs-commits-list/2006-February/msg06319.html > > So

Re: release notes

2006-03-07 Thread Davyd Madeley
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 14:43 +0100, Danilo Šegan wrote: > I've added rni18n.xml now: commentary might need changing :) Perhaps one of the translators could provide me with a screenshot of a translated GNOME desktop. Something in a non-Latin script would be preferred. --d -- Davyd Madeley http:

Problem accessing GNOME CVS

2006-03-07 Thread Gora Mohanty
Hi, I am the coordinator for the Oriya translation team, and have made several commits in the past. Over the last few months, we have not committed anything, as the project had stagnated. However, we now have a fresh impetus to complete GNOME localization in Oriya, and I was trying to make some