Help needed - From a non-arabic speaking! Problem Solved!!

["Syam S." <syam at emirates dot net dot ae>]

Thanks to everyone who responded to my query. The problem is finally solved by 
installing Tahoma fonts which supports arabic.
Note: Micro$oft does not allow downloading fonts from their web site any 
more!!
On Sunday 15 September 2002 19:43, Ahmad Muhsin wrote:
> Hi syam
> I got the same problem, but I was able to solve it by the following way. I
> made it working on both Redhat and Mandrake. First u make sure u installed
> the arabic language support for KDE. (I installed kde-i18n-ar-3.0.2) Go in
> to KDE control center (on RedHat) and from font installer  menu install any
> arabic ttf fonts (eg: tahoma).   Now on control center it self from fonts
> submenu, for all the fonts select the arabic font.  (Tahoma).  Now from the
> keyboard sub menu select arabic and us.  Once you apply it u may see icon
> for changing keyboard map on the KDE bar.  Now if you want to completely
> change the interface to arabic, select personalization option and select
> any middle east country.  I don't remember the exact submenus but if u want
> further information I can get u step by step details. Ind Mandrake linux
> also its the same procedure but u should have kde 3.0  by default its kde
> 2. something.  So get KDE 3. or higher for mandrake and u can try it out. 
> Fonts are installed from the mandrake control center.  That is the only
> difference. "Syam S." wrote:Hi,
> I did the same procedure. And, I am able to see those fonts in applications
> (I mean if I use KWord, it is there). But, when I used KDE with arabic
> language set, then the applications are not showing arabic (just showing
> square boxes for each char)... For example, if I run KMail, it will show
> its menus from right-to-left, but the menu texts are mere square boxes
> instead of arabic chars!
>
> On Sunday 15 September 2002 11:56, Mohammed Sameer wrote:
> > i don't know what's the procedure you followed, but what i usually do is:
> > cp /mnt/win_c/windows/fonts*.ttf foo
> > cd foo
> > ttmkfdir > fonts.scale
> > mkfontdir
> > then add the foo to /etc/X11/fs/config
> > drakfont with mandrake 8.2 doesn't import Arabic fonts successfully!
>
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