Re: General Arabic Installation Question

[Walid Shaari <shaari at arabeyes dot org>]

On Sat, 2003-04-05 at 12:39, Ibrahim Shaame wrote:
> I have been trying to install Arabic on my machine but have not been 
> very successful. When I get into KDE I just get squares instead of 
> Arabic characters.

I don't use KDE, but did you select the Arabic Language from the control
center, or from the switch language applet.

>  I also get the same thing with XFCE (another window 
> manager). I have fonts already installed and recognised by X (atleast 
> some of them; when I use gedit I can select these fonts, and when I 
> print fonts I can see Arabic fonts in the list). Could you please let me 
> know how to solve this problem? Is there a file (config, maybe ) in the 
> windows manager which determine the fonts to be displayed in their 
> windows? I would like to use Arabic independent of any specific windows 
> managers.

mmh! it looks like you have the fonts installed already, why not switch
to gnome, it might be just a language selection issue. consult the
Arabic howto in the AE site, and let us know more details, like the
output of xlsfonts, your Locale Env. variables, which method did you
choose to enable the arabic fonts,..etc

The squares usually mean font setup problem, but as you can use fonts in
gedit, then it might mean application setup problems as in font
selection.

Walid
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