From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 2 13:33:31 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ED4FC16A4CE for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2004 13:33:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk (happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk [81.2.69.218]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8A66643D4C for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2004 13:33:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: from happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk (localhost [IPv6:::1] (may be forged))i92DXNLY031058 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sat, 2 Oct 2004 14:33:23 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk) Received: (from matthew@localhost)i92DXNLS031057; Sat, 2 Oct 2004 14:33:23 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 14:33:23 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: Elwaleed Khafagy Message-ID: <20041002133323.GA30405@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , Elwaleed Khafagy , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20041001185712.36991.qmail@web41907.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041001185712.36991.qmail@web41907.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.5.6 (smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk [IPv6:::1]); Sat, 02 Oct 2004 14:33:24 +0100 (BST) X-Virus-Scanned: clamd / ClamAV version devel-20040904, clamav-milter version 0.75l on smtp.infracaninophile.co.uk X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-4.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=2.64 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.64 (2004-01-11) on happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ask for information X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 02 Oct 2004 13:33:31 -0000 --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 11:57:12AM -0700, Elwaleed Khafagy wrote: > i can not tell you how happy we am to use free BSD > but i need some information . > I am from egypt and our language is arabic , so our > company really need to know how to make free BSD > support for arabic . > we have informix database on our server and sometimes > we need to use arabic . > would you please tell me if there is a way to make > free BSD support arabic As far as I can tell, there is no support for an Arabic language locale in the base system. However many ports exist with Arabic support -- eg. OpenOffice. There is an arabic category in the ports -- mostly containing a number of Arabic fonts. I wasn't aware that Informix databases were available or supported under FreeBSD -- perhaps this is a Linux version of Informix being run under emulation? Anyhow, I'd expect that IBM as the vendors of Informix software would be good people to ask about localization support. I can state for certain that the two biggest free RDBMS available -- MySQL and PostgeSQL -- both provide excellent support for many different languages. Certainly, there is no problem with such things as hosting (or viewing) Arabic language web sites under FreeBSD -- all of the web application programming languages do support Arabic in principle, although examples and localized documentation may be hard to come by. FreeBSD depends entirely on people donating their time and expertise for all of its code development, web sites and documentation. As far as I can see there is no ongoing project to translate FreeBSD documentation and other material into Arabic, or to provide an Arabic locale in the base system. However, anyone stepping forward and volunteering to produce such things would be welcomed with open arms. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks Savill Way PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH UK --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBXq4jiD657aJF7eIRAiwZAJ9PYhZokaJuFIHblk2BxcBl0G85ngCgmhES Jhqsx0nVct1WuNM4akfBTR4= =72yG -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --J2SCkAp4GZ/dPZZf--