[Debian-hebrew-common] Re: what is hebrew localized debian ?

[kobi zamir]

--- kobi zamir <kobi_zamir at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 05:23:19 -0700 (PDT)
> From: kobi zamir <kobi_zamir at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: what is hebrew localized debian ?
> To: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> > IMHO any settings that are not somewhat derived
> from
> > that, are a bug.
> 
> O.K.
> 
> bugs/enhancement in X - add il keybaord layout for
> he_XX locale.
> FIX: Add a check in xsession that will isue a
> setxkbmap command ?
> 
> bugs/enhancement in GNOME - align panle applets to
> the
> right fo he_XX ar_XX locales. 
> FIX: Ubuntu had this problem for laptops and they
> solved it by creating a new default.config file and
> replace the original if the installer think it is a
> laptops.
> 
> > > 
> > > Current state:
> 
> > > system locale: POSIX
> > > list of all locales: C, POSIX, he_IL,
> > he_IL.iso88598,
> > > hebrew
> > 
> > This is because of silly issues with the
> installer.
> 
> How do fix the installer ? 
> I looked at d-i from svn and did not find where is
> the
> list of locales, and how d-i check what is a valid
> locale to use as defaulte.
> 
> > > GNOME/KDE desktops align to left (see mandrivas
> > > screenshot, it is the same in debian):
> > This is because there exists no package called
> > 'task-hebrew', or
> > something similar. Check for other languages.
> 
> shlomi made tasks hebrew ans hebrew-desktop, but for
> some reason they are not used by tasksel and d-i.
> 
> I do not know why this happen.
> I have a related problems with the tasks made for
> the
> project meta packages, they are not used by tasksel
> (
> i think that tasksel ignore tasks with unresolved
> dependencies, but this does not applay to shlome's
> tasks).
>  
> > en_US is a totally-insane default. It has a
> > different paper size and
> > different measurement units. en_GB is somewhat
> > saner. C.UTF-8 would also
> > be nice.
> 
> Can we ask d-i to install more than one locale for
> one
> contry, e.g. Israel in contry select will create
> C.UTF-8 and he_IL.UTF-8 ?
> 
> As I wrote above I did not find the scripts for
> locale
> detection in d-i.
>  
> > Oh: the variant si1452 is the wrong way to go,
> IMHO.
> 
> lyx is better ? (but using lyx I cant type english
> with shift)
>  
> > > for some reason, GNOME/KDE desktops are not
> aware
> > of
> > > bidi languages
> > Are you sure? 
> 
> Sorry, KDE does align to the right.
> 
> > What we add now should not conflict with the
> > permanent solutions. We can
> > try to create an alternative repository with our
> > patches applied and
> > then push them.
> 
> O.K.
> 
> > Sarge's installer support bidi as well, basically.
> > There is a problem
> > with alignment, and maybe the issue of UTF-8 .
> 
> Oh, I must be using an old CD, I will download a new
> one and check again.
> 
> Thank you, Kobi.
> 
> 
> 
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