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urxvt developer response to "supporting arabic"

lethal's picture

ok , hello everybody , first post :D

ok , so a german friend noticed that urxvt does not support Arabic well ( most of us know that ) , so he gave me the developer nickname and his channel , i joinned , and talked to the guy , but then he insulted my language ( Arabic ) accusing it of being not sensible writing system , and then started ti insult me , i tried to explain that mlterm and other already support that , he could take a peek and improve his tmerinal but he didn't listen and kept making stuff up that i didnt say , anyway, thanks to khaled hosny for trying to support aarbic in terminals and any who is doing so.

we were at the point where we didn't write our own software , but now that we have good programmers , i wonder where will this leave us ;)

regards.

EDIT: Removed the link to logs.
--bahaa2008

Faissl's picture

r u lethal from the IRC..?

so the Arab developers took the lead and begin coding.


lethal's picture

open source community

... i fully understand all that , but , you can't insult someones language just because you literally CAN NOT implement it, i mean , he could say a staight NO , or just "i don't know how" , " iam too busy " ....

besides , this is UNICODE-rxvt , its a main purpose is to suppoer all kinds of languages , so asking a VERY related feature is not a sin nor a crime ;)

if i knew how to add that , either i would just do it or shut up ( busy or whatever ).

going wild on people is just fun and you (as a developer or a project leader) could destroy your community by doing so.

regards :) .

Faissl's picture

I think some license

  • if this was a GPL violation, who we gonna call? RMS?


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