[kde-doc-english] Re: Urdu language support

[Philippe Fremy]

	Hi,

I am sorry, I can not help you with this. Try to contact one of the KDE user 
mailing lists, they will certainly be more able to help than I am.

	regards,

	Philippe

On Sunday 07 March 2004 14:42, (1172) wrote:
> Hey Philips thank u for replying ...
>
> You have got it right ... we have translated some of the applications in
> Urdu ... our translation seems to be used ... it doesn't display it
> correctly ... instead it display boxes or question marks ...  we are
> working with live CD ... its a debian based ... KNOPPIX guess u have
> heard abt it ...
>
> it doesn't either support arabic ... so i guess its a font problem
> because when I  placed the urdu arabic mo files in Red Hat desktop linux
> it worked ...
>
> Can u tell me what should I do inorder to get the characters displayed
> properly ... Arabic uses Tahoma and Sans fonts both ... and so does Urdu
> ... i've seen a file named ur_PK in folder /usr/share/i18n/... its
> purplish colored file have a cat pic on it ... i think it has smthing to
> do with this all ...
>
> The people whom u have directed my mail to , i've been trying to contact
> them as well .. but they don't seem to be alive ...
>
> I guess u can help me out with this ... please do ... take care and peace
> ...
>
>
>
> Philippe Fremy <pfremy at chez.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I don't know the details of translating KDE, so I redirect your message
> to a translator mailing list, which should be able to help better than I
> do.
>
> What is the exact nature of your problem ? You translated KDE in Urdu but
> it sill displays in english ? In that case, you probably did not install
> the translated version correctly or you have to point KDE to your
> translation.
>
> Or is it that your translation seem to be used, but you can not see the
> characters ? In that case, it would be a font problem. Do you have the
> appropriate font for displaying Urdu ? I assume that the language
> requires a different character set than european languages ?
>
> cheers,
>
> Philippe
>
> On Saturday 28 February 2004 12:09, (1172) wrote:
> > Hi there
> >
> > What are the required steps I have to make if I want to add urdu in kde
> > so that I can get the applications displayed in urdu ... I have got
> > some of the files translated but I am unable to get those displayed
> > with some of the methods I have tried ...
> >
> > Can u specifically tell what steps I have to take inorder to get Urdu
> > displayed properly ???
> >
> > I am waiting for ur reply impatiently....
> >
> > Regards..
> >
> >
> >
> >
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