Switching between Arabic and French

[Ralph A. Mack]

Thanks Walter,

This is wonderful to hear. I guess then, for development purposes, how
do I do that from emulation, since I don't have a real XO at the moment?

Once I've got that, I can start playing with Arabic script in the
various activities to help in the testing effort. Let me know who is
already working this area and I'll be glad to help out. My goal would be
to exercise various key activities to find "soft spots" for bi-di and
offer my help to chase down possible fixes where appropriate. I'm not a
native speaker or even fully fluent so I can't help with localization,
but I've studied long enough now to recognize a serious usability issue
if it arises in how an application works, and I am a programmer. :-) 

Gxis,
Lupestro

On Tue, 2008-03-18 at 01:00 +0000, Walter Bender wrote:
> 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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