My Inbox Happily Received This From "Ahmed El Helw" <ahmedre at gawab dot com> @ Mon, 02 Sep 2002 18:21:15 GMT > > salam ala man itaba3al huda, Salam wa ra7mat allh > so i was told to install the true > type font server and the tahoma font -- so i proceeded to do > this... and its installed, but when i run the Quran application > now, i get a few arabic letters, and a few trash letters - so > like it would say alif lam <random trash> seen for al-nas for > example. and the arabic font is still the messed up font. # mkttfdir > fonts.scale # mkfontdir voila! > the web font is really small sometimes, and its hard to read and increase the minimum font size in Galeon options "Arabic encoding" > sometimes some characters it doesn't know and replaces them with > some weird symbol). Is it ZWSP ? it seems to me that it's a problem with galeon trying to display the "lam-alef" as 2 characters instead of one ? > and also, the true type fonts work because i can select them in > galeon... > > i am running slack8.1 all above works good on Mandrake 8.2 should work with u too -- ---------------- -- Uniball @ DALnet Linux registered user # 224950 ICQ # 58475622 With Great Power, Comes Great Responsibilities.
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