Re: utf-8 in browsers

[Walid Shaari <ws070 at mdx dot ac dot uk>]

On Mon, 2002-11-04 at 04:46, Nadim Shaikli wrote: 
> --- Mohammed Sameer <Uniball gmx net> wrote:
> <SNIP>
> > My Inbox Happily Received This From Walid Shaari @ 03 Nov 2002 17:16:47
> > > > 1. Does Mozilla support other languages in its compose/reply buffers ?
> > > >    If it does, shouldn't we ask for proper Arabic support there too ?
> > > 
> > > There is a test in Linux Egypt by Alaa (*The Great*) ;-) that shows he
> > > can write Arabic in Mozaila, Alaa correct me if I am wrong
> > 
> > yes it was Alaa and me but we were using Galeon NOT Mozilla
> > but i think that mozilla should work too
> 
> (- AND -)
> 
> "Sayed Jaffer Al-Mosawi" <yamyam rocketmail com> wrote,
> > To write in mozilla in utf-8 encoding, you need to just change
> > the encoding to utf-8 and write using arabic keymap.
> 
> I'm not sure the two statements above jive.  Also keep in mind that
> some of us are not on linux systems (and don't possibly have access
> to Gnome/KDE and are without Arabic locale :-) I'm forced to use
> a workstation which I have no control over running Unix/solaris
> (this question, in passing, should also be of interest to windows
> users).  In short if the application (in this instance Mozilla) has
> that support, do please let us know how best to utilize it - otherwise,
> if there is a hack, what's becoming of it.  Will the hack/code be
> available to users ?  Has (or will) it be submitted to mozilla.org ?
OK The answer to this question is available in the Linux-Egypt forum, I
will give the link, and for the impatient I will quote the text, It
worked for me under Ximian Gnome (Galeon, and mozilla), be warned that
the keymap used might not be the apporpriate/complete one for you later,
so check it before using it, or use one of your own

consult the URL :
http://www.linux-egypt.org/showthread.php?s=&postid=3431
for more info than is down here


This is how alaa does it on his system: 
<quote> 
I have an XKB arabic keyboard keymap file one my home directory (that
file is attached here) I think it came with PANGO and I modified it a
bit, there is another keymap maintained by the Saudi LUG a quick search
through google should lead you. their file should be identical to mine
anyway. 

to load arabic keyboard just run 

xkbcomp arabic.xkb :0 

to switch languages just hit RIGHT ALT+ RIGHT SHIFT 

you can put this line in your .xinitrc file to be run automaticaly every
time you run x. 

you can also install katoob and use its arabic keyboard emulator
instead, when you need arabic text in other apps you can just copy and
paste it (it will work across GTK+2 apps at least). 
</quote> 



Walid