On Mon, 04 Apr 2005 19:26:58 -0400
"Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com> wrote:

> 
> kamel derouiche <derouiche_dz@yahoo.fr> writes:
> > is it possible to write sysinst for arabic version, is
> > it  supported by the kernel !!!!
> 
> sysinst uses the console driver for user communication.  The NetBSD
> standard console drivers do not currently have support for arabic
> character sets, context dependent rendering, or right to left text. I
> imagine such support could be added, but it would be a significant
> effort.

How about uwscons? Is it will be merged into NetBSD tree somewhere?

The [1] contains a patchset dated by 20050129, and [2] shows last update
at 2002.

[1] ftp://tink.ims.ac.jp/pub/NetBSD/uwscons/
[2] http://projects.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/projects.cgi?token=0&mode=viewproj&projnum=93

--
Mishka.