Re: Arabic Unicode terminal support

[Arafat Medini <lumina at silverpen dot de>]

Well I think I cannot help but what I wanted to say is WOW and big
respect for a finnish person interested in Arabic...

yours
Arafat Medini

Am Mo, den 02.02.2004 schrieb Nori Heikkinen um 21:33:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm running Debian, and I'm trying to set up my terminals to deal with
> Arabic UTF-8 data.  Sifting through hundreds of howtos and such about
> unicode in general, it seems that I _should_ be able to set my locales
> to ar_EG.UTF-8 (picked Egypt semi at random), open an xterm with the
> -u8 flag, and then view files (say, in cat, or vim, which I understand
> has good UTF-8 support[1]).  But I still get all kinds of non-Arabic
> characters.
> 
> While I can't see utf8 Arabic, I _can_ see utf8 IPA fonts[2] using
> `xterm -u8`.  I realize that I need to get a bi-directional library
> like libfribidi0, as xterm doesn't (and won't[3] support
> bi-directional text by itself), and I have ... but that's secondary
> right now, as I can't see the script at all.
> 
> I've been reading up on this for days.  Do I need a Unicode terminal
> font that supports Arabic, and if so, can someone reccomend one?
> Also, could anyone point me to a good Arabic UTF-8 howto, or something
> similar?
> 
> Thanks so much,
> 
> </nori>
> 
> [1] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Unicode-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.4
> [2] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/ipa-chart.txt
> [3] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#xterm