Re: how to display arabic fonts

["G. Roderick Singleton" <grsingleton at openoffice dot org>]

belahcene abdelkader wrote:
>  
>  
>  Hi, every body
> السلام
> عليكم 
>  
> I ve just installed debian, ( in fact knoppix is
> more
>  easy, I complete it with apt-cdrom).
>  
>  When I use mozilla and connect to an arabic site ,
>  like www.bbcarabic.com, I get the correct fonts, I
> mean the arabic fonts are correctly displayed.
> In the composer I can write arabic too
>  هكذا
>  
>  
>   But I tried to install the openoffice 1.1 with
>  the
>  arabic openoffice.org-l10n-ar_1.1.0-2_all.deb ,
> the
>  fonts displayed in the interface installer are a
>  list
>  rectangles...
>  
>  before that I installed the standard
>   OOo_1.1.0_LinuxIntel_install.tar.gz , but there
> in
>  no
>  arabic writing.
>   
>  Someone has an idea
>  
>  thank you very much.
>  bela
>
> و السلام
> عليكم

It sounds as if you don't have the fonts installed. Try spadmin to see 
what's there and to add what's missing. And since you perfer to 
communicate in arabic you will likely firn  users at ar dot openoffice dot org to 
be a good list on which to ask your questions.



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