Re: need help with Mandrake 10 KDE 3.2 "arabic"

[Youcef Rabah Rahal <rahal at arabeyes dot org>]

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Salam,

On Monday 22 March 2004 15:01, abbas al-mutawa wrote:
> Hi
>
> i have a problem with KDE 3.2 and arabic support, kde "konqueror cannot
> read any file with arabic name, it displayed as "???",
>
> when I try to create a folder and give it an arabic name it displayed like
> "?????", while i can write arabic correctly in the "create new folder
> dialog box" and any editor.
>
> even if i write  a paragraph in the "kwrite" and try to save it with arabic
> name on the disktop, it appears like "?????" .
>
> when i was using mandrake 9.1 i solve this problem by generating "AFM"
> fonts coding "CP1256" from the "kfontinst " in the "kde control center" ,
> but now this option is no longer avalibe under kde3.2.

I am not sure why CP1256 needs to be involved. Why not not UTF-8. Are you 
using unicode fonts ?

Anyway, I can't help much since I'm not using KDE 3.2.

Please post such questions on the 'general' mailing list next time :-)

Salam,

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Youcef R. Rahal
Arabeyes.org
http://www.arabeyes.org/~rahal
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