Re: [Groff] Arabic support ?

[Khaled Hosny]

On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 08:11 +0100, Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> > 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.
> 
That is too bad for me now, but thanks for your replay and I'll tray to
find someone who could help in that.

> 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.

That is too bad for me now, but thanks for your replay and I'll tray to
find someone who could help in that.

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Khaled Hosny