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macdolph Guest
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:43 am Post subject: Arabic Support |
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I've installed the Arabic language support but the menus didn't change to Arabic. What should I do? Thanks. |
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MrGruff Operator
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 10:05 am Post subject: |
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I may be wrong (and I'm sure Smokey knows better than I do) but I don't think the interface itself will change to arabic. You just get the ability to enter RTL text (which is in itself remarkable - I may be easily impressed)
This thread gives a bit more information on the topic.
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pluby The Architect
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sardisson Town Crier
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 11:23 am Post subject: |
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OK, I'm swamped this week, but I can take this one quickly
After installing the Neo/J Arabic language pack, you need to set Arabic as your first (top) language in the International pane of the System Prefs to Arabic for Neo/J to use the Arabic menus, dialogues, etc.
Note that the menus aren't "fully" RTL because Apple has yet to add the support to actually make menus align on the right edge and flip the check marks. (See the screenshots page in the wiki to see what I mean.)
Smokey _________________ "[...] whether the duck drinks hot chocolate or coffee is irrelevant." -- ovvldc and sardisson in the NeoWiki |
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MrGruff Operator
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 1:59 pm Post subject: Arabic |
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I knew Smokey knew better
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sardisson Town Crier
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Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:46 pm Post subject: Re: Arabic |
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MrGruff wrote: | I knew Smokey knew better |
The thread you pointed to actually contained the "missing" piece of the answer, but since the thread dated from before the language packs with localized UIs, it might have been confusing to find since the talk was about an English-langauge interface displayed in RTL!
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macdolph Guest
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Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2005 2:51 am Post subject: Arabic Support |
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I have installed the language pack and also set the defalt lang. to Arabic. I am able to write Arabic text though when I changed the system lang. to Arabic on the menu bar. Maybe I missed something... |
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Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 7:14 am Post subject: |
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What about Arabic in Tiger ?
Is it beter ? |
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sardisson Town Crier
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Posted: Tue May 17, 2005 11:08 am Post subject: |
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Someone asked about Arabic in 10.4 in the Hebrew thread a while ago, but no one's responded. I haven't gotten 10.4 yet, and it will probably be a while before I do
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