Wine, Hebrew and Google Summer of Code

[Stan Goodman]

On Wednesday 02 March 2011 21:48:19 Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Hi,
> Please correct me if I'm wrong, but at the moment, Wine doesn't have
> yet full Hebrew/Arabic support at the moment. With the correct
> encoding you can make Wine show hebrew (in menus etc), but mixing
> Hebrew and english still doesn't work and you have to jump through
> many hoops to make Wine work well with some hebrew support.
> 
> At the moment, in order to make hebrew work, some considerable
> investment is required, be it a paid freelancer(s) to work on it or
> group of volunteers.
> 
> As of this Monday, Google is accepting applications from
> organizations for Google summer of code (see here:
> http://goo.gl/lrt1q ).
> 
> My question: Is there any person, group or organization that can
> submit an application for Wine Hebrew support? That way, everyone
> wins: The student(s) will be paid by Google (I think they'll be happy
> to accept Wine & Hebrew/Arabic/BiDi to GSOC), and the Linux community
> will finally have (if everything goes well) a decent Hebrew/Arabic
> implementation in Wine.
> 
> What do you think?

I think much of your above description of Wine as related to mixing R>L 
and L>R languages is equally applicable to the text module(s) used in 
any of the editors I have used, It's deplorable.

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel