Switching between Arabic and French

[Walter Bender]

you can switch the keyboard on the fly, using the language key. you
can switch the language of the interface per session, using the
sugar-control-panel. most activities can accommodate Latin and Arabic
scripts concurrently.

-walter

On 3/18/08, Ralph A. Mack <ralph at macksoft.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
>  I have a question.
>
>  Schools in at least some countries in the Middle East and the Maghrib
>  typically teach in Arabic first and then a European language, typically
>  French or English. Therefore, I can envision students having to do two
>  written assignments, one in Arabic and another in French, for different
>  teachers in the same week. (I can imagine this issue would arise in
>  other areas as well.)
>
>  Short of switching the operating language of the device and restarting
>  it, is there a way to switch between entering Arabic language text and
>  French or English language text from activity to activity in the current
>  emulation images? If not, is this considered a desirable feature? Would
>  it be considered confusing? Has anybody suggested an alternative
>  approach for bilingual students? Has there been any feedback from folks
>  focusing on education in the Middle East or other affected areas about
>  this? Do they consider it important?
>
>  [Here's what puts the question squarely on the devel list....] Assuming
>  that some feature with the needed effect is in the cards, who is working
>  on it? Is it complete? If not, how can I help? While it would affect
>  many areas, I suspect it would be felt most sharply in Write (as might a
>  number of bi-di issues, at least in the last image I tried).
>
>  Lupestro
>
>
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Walter Bender
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