pidgin BiDi

[Amr Shahin]

ok the arabic interface seems fine, some translations are missing though
will list them and provide suggested translations

basic direction detections is good, the special unicode characters (RTL
marker, ZW joiner, etc .... ) however don't seems to be working correctly
will dig deeper into this :)

On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Amr Shahin <amrnablus at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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