From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 2 13:57:21 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 2E47016A4CE for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2004 13:57:21 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.de [213.165.64.20]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2E7BE43D2F for ; Sat, 2 Oct 2004 13:57:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from barner@gmx.de) Received: (qmail 9026 invoked by uid 65534); 2 Oct 2004 13:57:18 -0000 Received: from unknown (EHLO zi025.glhnet.mhn.de) (129.187.19.157) by mail.gmx.net (mp002) with SMTP; 02 Oct 2004 15:57:18 +0200 X-Authenticated: #147403 Received: by zi025.glhnet.mhn.de (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F26AAC0D4; Sat, 2 Oct 2004 15:57:37 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 15:57:37 +0200 From: Simon Barner To: Elwaleed Khafagy Message-ID: <20041002135737.GC57007@zi025.glhnet.mhn.de> References: <20041001185712.36991.qmail@web41907.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Qbvjkv9qwOGw/5Fx" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20041001185712.36991.qmail@web41907.mail.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i 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 13:57:21 -0000 --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--