Re: installing arabic kde package pb

[Ahmad Al-rasheedan <asr at baldi dot cc>]

On Monday 21 April 2003 17:06, dhiaeddine zzz wrote:
> salamou alaykom
> I did copied messages & Desktop.entry to /usr/share/locale/ar and I have
> the arabic choice entry added to the language&country menu but I have still
> a problem with fonts I think; all characters are squares. I'll check that.
> please anyone had an idea about how to change the config files in the
> package so installation puts them to the right directory ? and correctly
> make other operations if any, may be configure or make.. I'm wondering why
> the arabic package isn't included with the kde -and not only kde-
> distribution by default, is it a matter with mandrakesoft which doesn't
> include arabic package in their distribution? and if it is, what is needed
> so they include it in next releases. dhiaeddine
>

Ah, the square thing:)

I have set the language encoding under konquerer to be cp-1256. I noticed
I can cover lots of Arabic web pages (not as much as Mozilla). Some Arabic 
web sites show up with boxes & Arabic fonts. I have truetype fonts installed
and xfs-xtt running. Dunno if it is a must since latest XFreee86 should be 
able to render TT but I have it running any way. Best results regarding 
konquerer & Arabic is to set a custom stylesheet and hard code a font to be 
used with any web site (I have Tahoma). I am yet to see boxes doing the 
latter. The drawback with stylesheets IMHO is to loose bells and whistles 
from web sites that have them (background images and the like).

There is a FAQ for installing TT under Arabeyes web site and it should do you 
fine for the purpose of enabling TT.

Regards,
-- 
Ahmad Al-rasheedan (http://webhost.fasttelco.com/asr)