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i urgently need for my studies arabic fonts support on my arch system.
since browsing arabic web sites and composing emails in arabic with mozilla is no problem, i suppose arabic fonts are already installed. but what i have to do that they work with other applications - especially with abiword and aterm?
any help would be appreciated
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i urgently need for my studies arabic fonts support on my arch system.
since browsing arabic web sites and composing emails in arabic with mozilla is no problem, i suppose arabic fonts are already installed. but what i have to do that they work with other applications - especially with abiword and aterm?any help would be appreciated
i have no experience with arabic fonts, but if you have a font installed, that has arabic chars, you have then only to make sure, you can input arabic (in kde switch keyboard to some country that uses arabic) .... wait a min .. i have to google for more infos ...
EDIT:
you need one of this fonts:
http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fontsbyrange.html#u0600
شفثشفنشتارمنسشرارمنساةرممايشلخىرهحعقجةؤصخعثىشسرميابكىنترششىب
seems to work with arial from ttf-ms-fonts
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hello db!
i already googled without success - may be i used the wrong key words but the once solution i found was yast related and as far as i know from my suse time arabic fonts or chars are already enabled on suse
i got bitstream vera on my system and may be this are the fonts used by mozilla:
رايس تؤيد قيام دولة فلسطينية
but how do i make them work on other applications???
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but how do i make them work on other applications???
abiword is easy ... but aterm i think you need a non-ttf font to have with this unicode chars .... hmm ... can be difficult ... good luck
EDIT:
found this: http://www.arabeyes.org/
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Just to confirm, but as someone who has had experience with displaying Arabic on Linux, the bitstream vera fonts have the necessary glyphs. The ms-ttf-fonts are also good (thini arial and times new roman).
I've never used abiword, but OpenOffice has always coped. With regards to terminals, I've not had any experience. I recall Suse 9.1 worked ok from Konsole, but I think it had utf-8 encoding enabled by default.
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I have to use arabic fonts as well. The thing is that I am still on slackware. switching to arch asap (hate the compiling all the time)... there are some free ttf fonts available:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile … e_id=75554
after you installed them running setxkbmap -rules "xfree86" -model "pc102" -layout ar will change to arabic keyboard layout. works fine in OO...
running setxkbmap -rules "xfree86" -model "pc101" -layout us switches it back to english
I don.t know anything about arabic consoles, but there are websites for that...
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I have found that both KDE and GNOME have handy little applets that allow you to switch between various keyboard layouts at the click of a mouse.
Might not be the Arch Linux spirit mind, compared to some proper setxkbmap action.
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