Subject: Re: Arabic on Abiword
From: Hubert Figuiere (hfiguiere@teaser.fr)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2002 - 02:56:35 CST
According to Katie Jackson <jacksonk@kenyon.edu>:
> Hello--
>
> I saw on the webpage that Abiword "supports" many languages, including Arabic.
> Does this mean that it has some sort of toggle that will allow me to type
> right to left? I have an Arabic font, I just need some sort of function that
> would allow me to change the direction.
Technically AbiWord support, if properly build, BiDirectionnal languages
like arabic and hebrew (surely hebrew is supportted).
This is not in the default build because BiDi support is still not perfect
and can be crashy... (it gets better with the time).
Hub
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