Re: Help needed - From a non-arabic speaking!

[Sayed Jaffer Al-Mosawi <yamyam at rocketmail dot com>]

What distro are you using?

--- "Syam S." <syam at emirates dot net dot ae> wrote:
> Hi,
> I did the same procedure. And, I am able to see
> those fonts in applications (I 
> mean if I use KWord, it is there). But, when I used
> KDE with arabic language 
> set, then the applications are not showing arabic
> (just showing square boxes 
> for each char)... For example, if I run KMail, it
> will show its menus from 
> right-to-left, but the menu texts are mere square
> boxes instead of arabic 
> chars!
> 
> On Sunday 15 September 2002 11:56, Mohammed Sameer
> wrote:
> > i don't know what's the procedure you followed,
> but what i usually do is:
> > cp /mnt/win_c/windows/fonts*.ttf foo
> > cd foo
> > ttmkfdir > fonts.scale
> > mkfontdir
> > then add the foo to /etc/X11/fs/config
> > drakfont with mandrake 8.2 doesn't import Arabic
> fonts successfully!
> >
> 
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