Re: Arabic ISO-8859 support

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Hemali Majithia <majithia at streamsage dot com> wrote:
> 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 ?

Don't get sucked into character-set vs. encoding confusion.  Simply put,
you want to use UTF-8 in EVERYTHING you do.  For further mlterm details
please read the appropriate HOWTO instructions (section-5),

  http://www.arabeyes.org/download/documents/howto/arabic-howto-en

Salam.

 - Nadim

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