Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 21:59:31 -0400 From: epilogue <epilogue@allstream.net> To: Elwaleed Khafagy <wd145@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ask for information Message-ID: <20041002215931.7858ca80@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20041002133323.GA30405@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk> References: <20041001185712.36991.qmail@web41907.mail.yahoo.com> <20041002133323.GA30405@happy-idiot-talk.infracaninophile.co.uk>
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On Sat, 2 Oct 2004 14:33:23 +0100 Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@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 > > -- > Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 26 The Paddocks > Savill Way > PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Marlow > Tel: +44 1628 476614 Bucks., SL7 1TH > UK >
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