pidgin BiDi

[Amr Shahin]

what, who
did i hear windows
what's windows ???!!!@@#@$
i'm on rhel5
will change the local and see what mighty pidgin does :)

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 6:11 PM, Ethan Blanton <elb at pidgin.im> wrote:

> 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
>
> --
> The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws [that have no remedy
> for evils].  They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor
> determined to commit crimes.
>                -- Cesare Beccaria, "On Crimes and Punishments", 1764
>
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