Re: Arabic ISO-8859 support

[Hemali Majithia <majithia at streamsage dot com>]

Hi Anmar,

Thanks a lot !!! I got it to work after converting the file to utf-8.

-Hemali

On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Anmar Oueja wrote:

> 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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