Arabic and Hebrew on the console

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Thu Oct 9 20:29:34 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 23:16 +0300, Muayyad AlSadi wrote:
> As a native Arabic speaker I'll tell you
> if you keep it the way it's now an Arabic user will see translated
> messages from initscripts mirrored to left (imagine your self reading
> "Hello, World!" spelled backword)
> 
> if you move it to use LANG=en_US.UTF-8 when on vt this will disable
> Arabic translated messages and that's very reasonable
> 
> I suggested to add rm po/ar.po to %prep of initscripts
> but notting's solution is much smarter and it's better

Alright, so, I'd defer to what you think is best, as you will be
affected by it, and I will not. :)

~spot




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