Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 15:57:37 +0200 From: Simon Barner <barner@gmx.de> To: Elwaleed Khafagy <wd145@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ask for information Message-ID: <20041002135737.GC57007@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> In-Reply-To: <20041001185712.36991.qmail@web41907.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20041001185712.36991.qmail@web41907.mail.yahoo.com>
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--Qbvjkv9qwOGw/5Fx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Elwaleed Khafagy wrote: > dear sir; > 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 This is probably not what you are looking for right now, but it might be interesting anyways: AFAIK the GNOME desktop enviroment has support the arabic language, which means that text is displayed properly form right to left, and there's some sort of advanced text input technique, and according to http://www.gnome.org/start/2.8/notes/rni18.html, most of GNOME's base is also translated. I don't know about other desktop environments, e.g. KDE, but I guess that making similar efforts are under way. Regards, Simon --Qbvjkv9qwOGw/5Fx Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFBXrPRCkn+/eutqCoRAgiLAKC7HAr0zATZh31avvyFmMLIe/QqAQCgubsV jCeIt0shB1674NZPS6x8UNE= =mNXO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Qbvjkv9qwOGw/5Fx--
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