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Omar-Arch

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Registered: 2010-02-02

Posts: 3

Arabic language support needed, please.

Hi all.
I have just managed to install and setup Arch Linux, but I'm trying to get decent Arabic language support on it.
Right now, when I try to visit any Arabic content, on the web for example, I get the following result:

http://i.imgur.com/naxs1.png

I've tried to ask at the IRC, and they suggested it could be a locales problem, but even after I configured the locales, still the problem persists. I think it probably still has to do with the locales, but I'm not sure.

I'm slowly beginning to lose hope, please help..

Thanks.

wuischke

Member

From: Suisse Romande

Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 630

Re: Arabic language support needed, please.

Hi Omar-Arch,

the problem is that the text direction is wrong and letters are disjoint, right?

I haven't done anything to enable Arabic support, but aljazeera for instance looks like the following: http://imgur.com/R3ULV.png - correct text direction and joined letters.

My locale settings are below. Could you check that your current locale uses unicode (utf8)?

$ locale -a
C
de_DE.utf8
en_US.utf8
POSIX
$ locale
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=

Omar-Arch

Member

Registered: 2010-02-02

Posts: 3

Re: Arabic language support needed, please.

Here's mine:

# locale -a
ar_SA.utf8
C
en_US
en_US.iso88591
en_US.utf8
POSIX

# locale
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.utf8"
LC_NUMERIC="en_US.utf8"
LC_TIME="en_US.utf8"
LC_COLLATE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MONETARY="en_US.utf8"
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.utf8"
LC_PAPER="en_US.utf8"
LC_NAME="en_US.utf8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.utf8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.utf8"
LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.utf8"
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.utf8"
LC_ALL=

Last edited by Omar-Arch (2010-02-02 11:30:34)

wuischke

Member

From: Suisse Romande

Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 630

Re: Arabic language support needed, please.

Mh, locale looks ok. Let's try something different: Is the following headline displayed correctly? (It's rtl, but left-aligned.)

تويوتا قد تستدعي 9 ملايين سيارة

Which fonts do you have installed? I have the following and liberation is my default font.

ttf-dejavu
ttf-essays
ttf-freefont
ttf-gentium
ttf-gentium-basic
ttf-liberation
ttf-linux-libertine
ttf-ms-fonts

Omar-Arch

Member

Registered: 2010-02-02

Posts: 3

Re: Arabic language support needed, please.

Alright!
I've just installed liberation font and it worked like magic!
Thanks very much!
Problem solved. :-)