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Re: finding a good Arabic font
- To: General Arabization Discussion <general at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: finding a good Arabic font
- From: Youssef Chahibi <chahibi at gmail dot com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:22:00 +0000
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On Tuesday 10 July 2007 20:02:39 Boncek, John wrote:
> Thank you to everyone for the suggestions. I installed DejaVu Sans
> (haven't tried the other one yet) and got display with way too much space
> between characters, like this,
>
> c h a r a c t e r s s p a c e d o u t
>
> in all text strings in either English or Arabic. Other fonts already on
> the system still look OK. This font looks this way in the xfontsel
> utility as well as in the application program. I am new to font
> installation and suspect I neglected to run some configuration utility
> that is needed. Does this appearance suggest what I am missing?
Ask in the DejaVu Sans mailing list, it has a very responsive community.