News: Fluxbox finally has Bidi support

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News: Fluxbox finally has Bidi support

Postby zAchAry » 9. Sep 2010, 11:42

Good news for people who use RTL languages such as: Arabic, Farsi, Hebrew Urdu. :) ;) :evil: :P :D :| :ugeek: :mrgreen: :shock: :roll:


The code for the BiDi support has been added to Fluxbox(1) four days ago, according to one of the Fluxbox developers Mathias Gumz (aka: akira, ak|ra).
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irc://irc.freenode.net/fluxbox


Currently, the Fluxbox version that is available for SalixOS(2) is two years old, unless it has integrated patches.
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PACKAGE NAME:  fluxbox-1.1.1-i486-2.txz
PACKAGE LOCATION:  ./slackware/xap
PACKAGE SIZE (compressed):  644 K
PACKAGE SIZE (uncompressed):  3090 K


Screenshots(3):

a. Arabic:
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b. Hebrew (screenshots were made by ak|ra)
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he.wikipedia.org
tinypaste.com


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References:
(1) added support for bidirectional text - git.fluxbox.org Git
(2) ftp.gwdg.de/pub/.../slackware-13.1/PACKAGES.TXT
(3) source: dev.darkshed.net/fluxbox/bidi/
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