1.  Introduction

1.1.  Legal Notice

Copyright (C) 2004 by Munzir Taha Obeid, Arabeyes Project.

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license can be found at GNU's Site.

1.2.  Intended Audience

This document is mainly for Developers.

1.3.  About this Document

This document is meant to serve as a one-stop location that provides all Arabic-related issues with Mandrake. It serves as a status page and a place of coordinating the Arabization efforts in Mandrake. In short, if you want to know what's missing regarding the Arabic Support in Mandrake take a look at http://old.arabeyes.org/download/documents/distros/mdkarabicsupport-en/.

1.4.  About me

A Mandrake Club member who is happy with Mandrake and looking forward to help Linux maturing its Arabic support.

1.5.  Credits

As with any effort for the Linux project, there are a number of people who contributed to this document.

Thanks to:

  • All the folks on the arabeyes.org mailing lists who contributed suggestions and gently showed me the errors in my way.

  • Mr. Pablo Saratxaga of Mandrake cooker-i18n mailing list for his many great contributions, numerous bug fixes and modifications.

1.6.  Feedback

Please send any questions, comments, suggestions, corrections, or contributions via e-mail to the `doc' mailing list at http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/doc. This document will be updated regularly.