Re: [Groff] Arabic support ?

[Khaled Hosny]

On Sun, 2006-01-08 at 20:39 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > > 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.
> >
> > This is too late reply, but I found that all what we need to get man
> > pages in Arabic is to have proper Unicode support in groff as, in
> > the case of man pages, the RTL and shapping should be handeled by
> > the terminal not by groff itself (I found that after using Bruno
> > Haible's utf-8 hack)
> 
> Unfortunately, this isn't true.  groff really does *format* the man
> page, so it has to know both the direction of the text and the metrics
> of the used fonts, even for TTYs.
> 
> 
>     Werner
so how groff-utf8 extension
(http://www.haible.de/bruno/packages-groff-utf8.html ) do it, as it
works with me (see this screen shot
http://khalid_hosny.manalaa.net/image_galleries/screenshoots/first_arabic_manpage)