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

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Did you install unicode fonts ?  please see 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saudi_linux/message/957 (How to enable Arabic 
support in KDE 3.0)

and for Arabic please see http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Linux4me/message/1


I don't why you guys (arabeyes) don't put this how-to in your site, it will 
help too much people


On Sunday 15 September 2002 10:49, Syam S. 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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