Comment 19 for bug 62587

can u please not send me any emails?? how can I do that? why am I
receiving these emails now??? how do I stop them??

thanks

On 22 Sep 2006, at 14:28, ALAYA wrote:

> 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
>>
>
> --
> xkeyboard Arabic problem
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/62587