[K12OSN] Non - English language support?

[Micha Silver]

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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