On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 07:26:01PM +0100, Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Quoting Daniel Burrows ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > Maybe trying in debian-l10n-arabic....the list is not deeply active, > > > but that could be an occasion.... > > > > My worst nightmare for several years has been that someone would pop up > > and demand bidirectional text support in aptitude. Does that count? > > > Arf...:-) > > Let's try to not leave the poor Daniel in his nightmare.... > > debian-l10n-arabic and Arabeyes people, here's a very interesting > horse to beat for you: how could we make aptitude BiDi friendly given > that we have most of the needed bricks for this: > > -a good developer with deep knwoledge of his software > -a decent library for BiDi (libfribidi) but maybe not with C++ stuff > -motivated people (Arabeyes people?) > -very soon a good translation (Ossama?) > > So, after putting some glue at the right places, there's nothing we > cannot do, don't you think? > > PS for people added to this thread: aptitude is the now recommended > tool for Debian packages installation, selection and general > management. Daniel Burrows is aptitude's maintainer and Debian bug > #344161 is a request for BiDi support in aptitude...
I might be able to make some progress on it if someone could explain just precisely what BiDi is (i.e., more precisely than "text goes both directions at once" which is pretty much what I know about it right now). Daniel
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