New Porter Question.

[falaki at ce.sharif.edu]

> A guess would be that at least 10 should move.
The number is surely beyond 10.
> Would you mind listing the existing ones and give us an idea of the
proposed new ones?
It would be more insightful to know that there is a government sponsored
project called FarsiLinux (http://www.farsilinux.org) which is trying to
provide as all the essential Persian tools in Linux so that the vast use
of MS products could be stopped before Iran joins WTO. Any way lets list
some of the most important ones:

1. FarsiTeX: An independent work by Dr. Ghodsi in Sharif University,
www.farsitex.org
2. FarsiKDE: An independent project aiming at Localizing KDE. A port
already exists
3. Jalili: A Persian Calender.
4. Standard Persian Fonts:
(http://www.farsiweb.info/wiki/Products/PersianFonts)
5. FarsiXterm.
6. Fribidi (This is already embedded in GNOME and works properly in GNOME
under FreeBSD, I just wanted to name it!), www.freedesktop.org has good
information. Interesting to know is that Fribidi is sponsored by Iran the
FarsiLinux project.
7. Farsi Tools. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/farsitools/)
8. Locale Information for Farsi.
9. GNU miscfiles: (http://www.farsiweb.info/wiki/Main/Products )

There are many ongoing projects. Most of them will result in patches to
the main source tree but some patches would not be accepted thus a port
may seem useful:
1. Farsi support in Postgrsql.
2. Farsi support in Mozilla.
3. Omega: Multilingual Typesetting system.
(http://sourceforge.net/projects/omega1/)
4. GNU C Library Persian Support:
(http://www.farsiweb.info/wiki/Main/Products )
5. GNOME Persian Support: (http://www.farsiweb.info/wiki/Main/Products )

Every month or few monthes some projects are being initiated.

Mohammad H. Falaki.