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What Arabic, Turtle and Google have to do with each other

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Time for my notes from the LibreOffice conference 2012 , in Berlin recently. The week was well organised by our friends of the German LibreOffice community. The location was at a ministry, close to station Berlin Hauptbahnhof. And the weather was excellent, so the 10 minutes walk from the hotel to the conference venue could be done in a T-shirt. Mid October :-) So, what items do I really want to mention? First there was the positive key-note by Jeremy Allison from Google . Included in his presentation were two slides that make extremely clear what the value of open source is for Google .. .. and for others too!   A beautiful project is the localization of LibreOffice in Arabic . Because of the language structure, that needs some more attention then just doing the translating. The support for languages with what 'we' call complex text layout (CTL-support – see Tools > Options > Language settings ..) has to be improved on various points. Various spe