Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 122228
Arabic language needs to be added
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:41 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.1; Linux) Description of problem: Arabic has attained a translation of 70% (Anaconda is 100% translated). 35% were done during the past week :-) [And It's even possible to reach 95% or 100% before May 7th] Arabic is now ranked before many of the translations that will be shipped with FC2. Please consider adding Arabic installation in FC2. This is vital for all those who did an astounding work the last days in order to make this a reality. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. During installation Additional info:
It's too late to add languages to anaconda at this point. Adding languages adds strings which it's too late for and also there would be no vehicle for actually testing it (I can't really say whether things look right or not). Targeting for FC3
At least we need to feel that Fedora (and RedHat) are giving more attention for Arabic. Mandrake released KDE-ar long time ago, while RedHat didn't !!!
I've really spent endless time and effort trying to catch up with this. We've finished all files, except dist.po which is a really big one. I saw other translations that are not complete and still are included (not sure if they are updated to the latest sync) but still ours is not. This is really important, that at least the latest sync is included and many many Arabic-speaking people (including me) are eager to _use_ the Arabic interface finally. Farsi (which is RTL too) is included anyway in the menu of languages, and it looks great. If the worry is about the look, I can assure that it's simply _fantastic_ and usable to many people, specially those who will be introduced to Arabic and Arabic-like OSs other than Windogz. Please try your best to include the latest updates in FC2 and not wait for FC3.. Pleeeeeeeeease ;-)
Oh, sorry. The language is Persian not Farsi. Anyway, I installed FC2T3 today using that language and caught some screenshots so you can evaluate yourself. They are just perfect! So, maybe this is a good time to add Arabic too ;) After all, BUGzilla is using for bugging, isn't it? ;) Screenshots at: http://www.khayatfamily.net/images/
Are we still targeting for FC3 ?
Any news ??
Mohamed I tried FC3 Test 1 and it has Arabic in it.
Jeremy - The Arabic font in Anaconda is wired. I guess this font is from Aurdo/Farsi Language. It has similar characters, yet it is different in shapes. Can we use other font in the installer for Arabic ? Also, there is no Arabic key map in the installer. Can we add keyboard map in the "Select Key map"-Screen ?
Forgot to say, I was testing FC3 Test 2
If you can suggest specific fonts to add which will improve things (that we already ship), I can include more files in the installer's second stage. As far as the keyboard, please file a separate request against system-config-keyboard.
The default font we ship is KacstQura. So I would say use the same font which should provide decent rendering of Arabic. I will file a new bug for the keyboard.
Jeremy - If I select Arabic installation on TEXT install , words still show LTR and letters are not connected. Any comment on this one?
Adding the font to CVS. RTL isn't going to happen for text mode (there's no real support), so putting Arabic in the "can't do text mode" category.