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 get that precisely because I had chosen Arabic (Infact it is the
configuration of previous version of Arabic configuration of KDE. I had
reinstalled the whole linux and then recopied the "arabic user"with all
his previous files, who worked perfectly in Arabic in the previous
version of KDE)
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
Following your advice I have tried to change to "GNOME", infact I can
see some arabic on certain items of the menus, but unfortunately the
characters of the words are seperated. By the way I tried before to
install "akka" but when I run "akka-config.pl" I get the message "bad
interpreter: Permission denied". Any explanation on this?