Re: Reading arabic on linux

[Isam Bayazidi <bayazidi at accessme dot com>]

At 07:12 PM 05/11/01 +0100, you wrote:
> In mozilla/galeon text seems microscopically small and blocky.
> Is this just a font problem, or can you actually identify individual letters?
> Any tips of good, readable fonts?

As much as Mozilla got better in arabic support, the KDE Konqueror still 
give the best arabic shaping for arabic letters/fonts

> I have a swedish keyboard and would like make an alternate keymap
> for X so I can write arabic. Do you think this this is possible?
> It seems rather hard to get an arabic keyboard here...

There is an Arabic Keyboard enabling you to write arabic :
read this discussion ( In arabic ) :
http://www.montada.com/linux4arab/showthread.php?s=&threadid=45416
and download this file :
http://mhdyousif.hypermart.net/arabic.tar.gz

hoping that this would help you in KDE .. if you use other Window Managers 
here is this file :
http://linux.haydar.net/xkbsel-0.13.new.tar



> Since my vocabulary is rather limited, i have a hard time reading
> text without wovels. Do you know if there exists any program that
> does wovel-guessing based on wordlists/context etc?

sorry .. I didn't see such program..

Yours
        Isam