Re: Arabic ISO-8859 support

[Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org>]

On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 20:27, Hemali Majithia wrote:
> 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.
> 

Yes, you are missing something.. which is my fault. This is what  you
should have in your mlterm 'font' file:

ISO10646_UCS2_1 =
20,-arabeyes-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-misc-1;

Note how the font name is slightly different. Ensure that it is th
correct name from xlsfonts(1).

$ xlsfonts | grep arabeyes

I have made the correction to the HOWTO and committed to CVS (should go
live soon'ish).

Regards,
Mohammed Elzubeir