Re: Arabic ISO-8859 support

[Hemali Majithia <majithia at streamsage dot com>]

Hi Nadim,

Thanks for your reply. I guess I am missing something here.
According to your suggestion and from the HowToSection,

I installed the following font and also use the same in /etc/mlterm/font
ISO10646_UCS2_1 = -arabeyes-fixed-medium-r-normal--*-iso10646-1;

and set the locale to "ar_EG.UTF-8"

It works fine for UTF-8 Unicode text file, but I still cannot view
ISO-8859 text file.

Am I doing something wrong here ?

I have tried all kinds of combinations but somehow cannot view it
correctly.

Thanks,
Hemali

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Nadim Shaikli wrote:

> --- 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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