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  1. Bug #62587
  2. Comment #18

Comment 18 for bug 62587

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Zied ALAYA (zied.alaya) wrote : Re: [Bug 62587] Re: The Arabic Write error !

Thank you very mach for the explanation
i hope this problem will be solved as soon as possible

2006/9/30, Isam Bayazidi <email address hidden>:
>
> This is a known issue in Xorg/XFree86 .. It is indeed a major bug, but I
> think that the problem is that it is not possible to map a keyboard key
> to 2 characters.. last I checked (2 years ago) it was not possible to do
> so.. Now the Big problem is, the keyaboard definition of Arabic in X
> (KDE/Gnome,etc) map the LAM_ALEF glyph (presentation form) to the key..
> which is a major mistake because it breaks iconv and recode conversion
> of text, as the presentation form should NEVER be stored in a file, and
> having it mapped in the keybaord layout break that.
>
> --
> The Arabic Write error !
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/62587
>