Re: OpenOffice and Arabic

["Ahmad Twaijry" <msx at hush dot com>]

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Do you want to write in Arabic or to change the interface ?

if you want to write in Arabic just install some Arabic fonts (e.g from
http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Khotot )
and install Arabic keyboard to your window manager (e.g KDE or GNOME)

On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 00:05:16 -0800 Johannes Graumann <graumann at its dot caltech dot edu>
wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm running Debian testing with US-American locales and have installed
>their OpenOffice 1.1.0-1 package. My polyglot wife however would
>like to
>be able to use OpenOffice to process - among other languages - Arabic,

>>
>so this is what I did:
>
>
>For arabic I did:
>- dpkg-reconfigure locales
>  --> generating ar_LB.ISO-8859-6 and ar_LB.UTF-8
>- apt-get install xfonts-intl-arabic
>- LANG=ar_LB openoffice (same problem with LANG=ar_LB.ISO-8859-6
>or
>LANG=ar_LB.UTF-8)
>
>But this leads to: I18N: X Window System doesn't support locale
>"ar_LB"
>Can you help me out with this?
>
>
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