On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 02:06:13PM -0700, Mikael Claesson wrote: > Hello. > > I'm sorry if this is not the right forum. I'm trying > to write "kifalek", meaning something like "how are > you?" in arabic on my Gnome machine (have Windoze keefak ;-) > aswell). I've managed to get arabic keyboard support, > and in GEdit I can get random squigglies by typing on > the keyboard. I know no arabic at all. > > I have the sentence written down on a piece of paper, > so I know what it should look like. Is there some > point-and-click tool for writing arabic? And which > font should I use? Is there anything else I should > think of? > I don't think that i know about such a thing. Though i can code something like this if required ;) any votes out there ? You can use MS windows fonts "i use tahoma here", or kacst fonts. > Best of all ofcourse would be if some friendly arabic > speaker could write it in a word processor document > that I can just print out and use. It's for a t-shirt. > If I could change the font myself to something I like > that would be great. > If you have it I can write it down for you. there is a better idea, you can open a blank file in gedit, write all the arabic letters "i.e press all the keys on your keyboard" then just copy the letters one by one as you like!. > Again I appoligise if this is not the right mailing > list. > It's even if not, Welcome man ;-) > Best regards > > /M > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software > http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at arabeyes dot org > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general > -- ---------------- -- Katoob Main Developer Linux registered user # 224950 ICQ # 58475622 FIRST make it run, THEN make it run fast "Brian Kernighan". -- Don't send me any attachment in Micro$oft (.DOC, .PPT) format please Read http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Preferable attachments: .PDF, .HTML, .TXT Thanx for adding this text to Your signature
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