Re: Need Arabic font and test doc for testing Vim patch

[anmar oueja <anmar at canada dot com>]

Hello Steve:

The following is from the Arabic Vim patch By Nadim:

Assuming that you have patched and compiled vim with the latest 
arabic-shaping patch. All you need to activate the arabic support is the 
following

:set guifont= (arabic font)
:set encoding=utf-8
:set keymap=arabic
:set arabic

alot of the windows fonts support arabic such as Arial, and Coureir New. 
Unfortunately I do not know which of these fonts is free. if you have a 
free font and want to find out if it supports arabic, all you have to do 
is launch the (Character Map) app in windows and see the shapes this 
fonts supports. if you are not sure. send the fonts list to this mailing 
list and I will be happy to check them for you..

Thanks

Anmar

Steve Hall wrote:
> Stupid question: English, non-Arabic speaker here wants to see Arabic
> Vim in action. Seems like three things are needed:
>
> * Arabic text document
> * Arabic font
> * Instructions for setting the correct encoding. (:set encoding=utf-8)
>
> Could anybody here help me with the first two? I'd prefer a native
> speaker mail me a very short doc with an interlined English
> translation. (Perhaps a quick advocacy for Arabeyes.org!) I'm also
> wondering where (in addition to the Unix fonts listed at
> http://www.arabeyes.org/resources.php) I might find a Windows font
> that is freely distributable. Any pointers?
>
> I'd like to post these with our Arabic-supporting Vim binaries so that
> non-speakers can reliably test. (And broaden all our horizons a bit.)
>
> Thanks much.
>
> Steve Hall  [ [digitect] at [mindspring] dot [com] ]
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