ask for information

epilogue epilogue at allstream.net
Sat Oct 2 18:59:42 PDT 2004


On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 14:33:23 +0100
Matthew Seaman <m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 11:57:12AM -0700, Elwaleed Khafagy wrote:
> 
> > i can not tell you how happy we am to use free BSD
> > but i need some information .
> > I am from egypt and our language is arabic , so our
> > company really need to know how to make free BSD
> > support for arabic .
> > we have informix database on our server and sometimes
> > we need to use arabic .
> > would you please tell me if there is a way to make
> > free BSD support arabic
 
you 'may' find the following site to be of 'some' assistance:

http://www.arabeyes.org/

http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=FreeBSD-ports&PHPSESSID=25139c47d0473d132bf4461c4e42e6d1


hope that this helps,
epi


> As far as I can tell, there is no support for an Arabic language
> locale in the base system.  However many ports exist with Arabic
> support -- eg. OpenOffice.  There is an arabic category in the ports
> -- mostly containing a number of Arabic fonts.
> 
> I wasn't aware that Informix databases were available or supported
> under FreeBSD -- perhaps this is a Linux version of Informix being run
> under emulation?  Anyhow, I'd expect that IBM as the vendors of
> Informix software would be good people to ask about localization
> support.  I can state for certain that the two biggest free RDBMS
> available -- MySQL and PostgeSQL -- both provide excellent support for
> many different languages.
> 
> Certainly, there is no problem with such things as hosting (or
> viewing) Arabic language web sites under FreeBSD -- all of the web
> application programming languages do support Arabic in principle,
> although examples and localized documentation may be hard to come by.
> 
> FreeBSD depends entirely on people donating their time and expertise
> for all of its code development, web sites and documentation.  As far
> as I can see there is no ongoing project to translate FreeBSD
> documentation and other material into Arabic, or to provide an Arabic
> locale in the base system.  However, anyone stepping forward and
> volunteering to produce such things would be welcomed with open arms.
> 
> 	Cheers,
> 
> 	Matthew
> 
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