[K12OSN] Non - English language support?

[Nadav Kavalerchik]

i agree with Micha :-)

we enable Hebrew, English, Arabic and Russian languages in K12LTSP6 (fc6) by
installing the right KDE-i18n-* packages (using yumex tool) and then
enabling them with KDE's Control Panel.

you can open an application's UI in both Arabic and Hebrew
(simultaneously!!!)

have no fear, gnu/linux OSes and most Open Source Software support
multi-language UIs and content creation natively.

On 2/22/07, Micha Silver <micha at arava.co.il> wrote:
>
> Joseph Bishay wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > How are you doing? I hope all is well.
> >
> > I've been asked to configure a machine (standalone installation of
> > k12ltsp) to be able to read and write in arabic.  Now, when I google
> > information on this, the pages that explain it are in arabic, which I
> > cannot read!
> I don't know about Arabic specifically, but on our server I've installed
> hebrew support, and student's UI's are in hebrew. Many of the KDE apps
> are translated, there's a pretty good set of hebrew fonts, and the bidi
> (right to left) implementations, which used to drive us crazy, are now
> pretty mature. The only non standard addition I did was to replace
> Fedora's OpenOffice with the hebrew version built in Israel. The
> original Fedora build *does have* a good hebrew interface, but a few
> bugs were fixed by the Israeli team recently.
> As to your question, to the best of my knowledge Arabic support in Linux
> is at least as good as Hebrew, so a FC6 machine (or k12ltsp 6) should be
> a very workable desktop replacement. Foreign language support need not
> be a cause for hesitation in adopting OSS, not even our RTL languages.
> It would help, of course if you had an Arabic speaker "on hand", so that
> when you switch the interface language, you can see if it's working right!
>
> Regards,
> Micha
> >
> > While this isn't exactly ltsp related, it is important in the sense it
> > is for one of the board members of the school where ltsp is
> > implemented, and the reason it was installed for him was to show that
> > it is a viable desktop replacement as well as good for the kids.  As
> > the school plans on expanding in the future, being able to do things
> > like support this language is crucial.
> >
> > All help is greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Thank you.
> > Joseph
> >
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