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List:       mandrake-cooker-i18n
Subject:    Re: [i18n] RTL support in rpmdrake
From:       Munzir Taha <munzirtaha () newhorizons ! com ! sa>
Date:       2004-12-02 0:12:45
Message-ID: 200412020312.45155.munzirtaha () newhorizons ! com ! sa
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On Yau al-Thulatha 17 Shawwal 1425 8:20 pm, Thierry Vignaud wrote:
> John Rye <jrt746@clear.net.nz> writes:
> > > > > in rpmdrake, in "maximum information" mode, should english
> > > > > description and english summary be aligned to left (like the
> > > > > changelog is) or to right for RTL languages such as arabic or
> > > > > hebrew ?

> > > "english description                             :XXXXX"
> > > "                             arabic description :XXXXX"
> >

I confirm. You mean until it got translated, right?

Another related issue regarding the translation of summaries and descriptions. 
It's no doubt a huge work and the problem is that the text always change and 
every packager writes his own summary in his own way. Have other language 
teams thought about a project of unifying the summaries and descriptions and 
making them in a way that is stable as much as possible? So, translators 
won't find a 300 fuzzy and 500 unranslated string overnight ;)

We have done a huge effort in translating those summary/descriptions of fedora 
to Arabic and I would like to see how can we use/merge it here.

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Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer
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