Re: Typing arabic for non-arabic speaker

[Unixy <Unixy at Linux4Me dot com>]

Do you want to write in encoding cp-1256  in Linux ? try Kwrite  or Kate


I have made to many Arabic documents and websites from Linux with encoding 
cp-1256 (e.g. http://www.linux4me.com) 


On Wednesday 23 October 2002 17:37, Gimson Ahmed wrote:
> Salam,
>
> I've been trying to find information how to type arabic text along with
> latin (mixing bidirectional) in Linux environment, especially using KDE.
>
> I have searched this mailing list and found that now I can enable arabic
> GUI and arabic html in Linux, using standardized i18n and unicode fonts.
> But my associates wants more using Arabic Windows as the sample. What I
> don't know are:
> 1. Using friendly word processor (maybe if there is ArabTex in GUI) to type
> bidirectional text. OpenOffice is available in bidirectional feature, but
> is this a standard feature, or just a tweaked version.
> 2. Creates arab-like character, with different charset (e.g. Arabic Jawi
> text) using my custom fonts.
> 3. Using existing non-unicode Arabic Windows fonts in Linux.
>
> These needs are came up as my associates used lots of fully harkat arabic
> text. I have tried to create a windows-1256 html, but displayed bizzarely
> in Linux environment (Konqueror/Mozilla) as it didn't recognize 0 width
> character.
>
> And lastly, how can I use strict fatha/kasra/dhammah when typing in MS Word
> (on Arabic Windows)? I viewed the font (traditional arabic) and sure that
> it has the correct character, but couldn't find way to get it.

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