pidgin BiDi

[Ethan Blanton]

Amr Shahin spake unto us the following wisdom:
> let's start with the most obvious, for me that would be an arabic interface
> (with controls and everything flipped into RTL) and arabic spell checking
> i did some homework, as for the interface, i couldn't find any non-english
> interface for pidgin, is that correct ?

It is not.  We have dozens of language translations, among them
Arabic.  I presume you're on Windows; on Windows, you have to install
and select translations in some way which I don't understand.  On a
Unix system, if you use Pidgin in an Arabic locale, it should use
Arabic by default.

Ethan

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