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Re: [Groff] Arabic support ?
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Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: [Groff] Arabic support ? |
Date: |
Thu, 01 Dec 2005 08:11:25 +0100 (CET) |
> I'm a member of an Arabic team ( arabeyes.org) working in localizing
> Linux (and other *nx like systems).
>
> Recently, we are working in translating manpages and I'm the
> coordinator of that project, but unfortunately I found that groff
> doesn't support Arabic at all (using 1.19.1 version) and all what I
> got is some meaningless characters, I did some googling and
> searching in this mailing list and what I found is that no way to
> use Arabic with groff now - I hop that I'm wrong -.
I'm very sorry to say that you are right. groff doesn't support
right-to-left scripts, and it won't do that in the future except you
find a good guy who wants to implement that. Additionally, it has
absolutely no support for a shaping engine necessary for real Arabic
processing.
It really hurts me to say that but I think that the cleanest way
currently is to use an external man2xxx (for example, man2html)
translator.
Werner
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