Re: Arabic ISO-8859 support

[Anmar Oueja <anmar at canada dot com>]

Hello Hemali:

I strongly suggest you convert the file from iso8859-6 to utf-8 then 
view it using mlterm.

I do not know of an iso8859-6 yet sorry.

Anmar

Hemali Majithia wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> I have been trying to set up mlterm to view Arabic ISO-8859 text. I am
> using Debian. I am not sure which locale to use. I am using ar_EG.iso88596
> (which is the only option I found for arabic in terms of iso 8859).
>
> When I try to start my mlterm, I get an error :
> No fonts found for charset "iso8859-6" Please install fonts or use Unicode
> font ("-u" option).
>
> Do I need to install fonts or need to use some other locale or set
> something else in my fonts file ?
>
> Can someone please let me know if they have come across this particular
> problem?
>
> Thanks,
> Hemali
>
>
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