Re: Self-Introduction: Oron Peled

[Nayyar Ahmad]

welcome...

On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Oron Peled <oron(a)actcom.co.il&gt; wrote:

>  Hi everybody,
>
>  I'm from Haifa, Israel. A long time programmer, instructor and consultant
>  in Unix/Linux systems and haven't contributed much so far (shame on me).
>
>  My current goal is to advance the Hebrew translation of Fedora.
>  Since there are active upstream teams for both KDE (my personal
>  desktop) and GNOME and both desktops have pretty good BiDi support
>  and reasonable translation state.
>
>  [Note: BiDi == Bidirectional: Hebrew, like Arabic, Farsi and other
>        similar languages is written right-to-left]
>
>  However, there is no Hebrew support at all during installation!
>  Being late to the F9 game, I've started with the quickest
>  candidate and translated the comps module. Next week, when no more
>  commits to code are possible, I'll try to put some time into F9 relnotes
>  and announcements so we have at least something visible for F9.
>
>  My longer goal for Fedora (F10?) is to add Hebrew support to anaconda.
>  Together with the comps file it will enable complete localized
>  installation and will lower the barrier to entry in my country.
>
>  This will probably require adding BiDi support to anaconda.
>  While I'm not a pythonist it may be a good chance to start playing
>  a bit with this language (I had enough of C/C++/Java/Perl/sh)
>
>  Two years ago I've added BiDi support (and some Hebrew translation)
>  to the wesnoth game upstream. This was done via the fribidi library
>  maintained by Behdad Esfahbod and was pretty easy (wesnoth code is
>  organized very well)
>
>  Hmmm... I haven't seen other BiDi languages use this and add their
>  translations to this popular game...  Arabic? Farsi? hint, hint...
>
>  If nobody wants to be the Hebrew team maintainer, I'm willing to do it.
>
>  GPG fingerprint:
>   pub   1024D/7142AC53 2000-08-17
>        Key fingerprint = 8C43 2019 5146 E6F1 0117  DA04 CD56 D7D0 7142 AC53
>   uid                  Oron Peled (My Secret Key) <oron(a)actcom.co.il&gt;
>   sub   1024g/30982F1C 2000-08-17
>
>  Good night everybody,
>
>  --
>  Oron Peled                             Voice/Fax: [phone]
>  oron(a)actcom.co.il                 
> http://www.actcom.co.il/~oron<http://www.actcom.co.il/%7Eoron>
>  ICQ UIN: 16527398
>
>  "Debugging is at least twice as hard as writing the program in the
>  first place.  So if your code is as clever as you can possibly make
>  it, then by definition you're not smart enough to debug it."
>                                                  -- Brian Kernighan
>
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