Re: Suse 9.1 : arabic websites illegible

[Gimson Ahmed <gimson at indo dot net dot id>]

On Friday, July 23, 2004, at 01:48  AM, Petra dot Duenges at t-online dot de wrote:

> ...
> a closer examination of the fonts with a unicode charset table tool
> revealed
> that the font examined (ae_alMohanad) does not contain the
> "Arabic Presentation Forms A"
> block of unicode. I suspect that this is part of the problem since some
> of
> the strange signs occuring on the problematic webpages are rendered
> with fonts containing those presentation forms.

Perhaps in 9.1 version, SuSE removed the 'complete' arabic fonts from 
their package. You might try to list 8.2's fonts package and compare 
with the 9.1 package's. Or perhaps, the complete arabic fonts package 
are included only on Professional version.

From my experience, newer version of SuSE often removing some package 
which included in older version due to license issue.

From my point of view, the alternatives are:
1. You use the good-old SuSE 8.2
2. Install SuSE 8.2, make sure that arabic websites are displayed well. 
Upgrade to SuSE 9.1 for core packages only (kernel, libraries, etc.)
3. Use SuSE 9.1 from scratch and 'update packages' related to arabic 
support with SuSE 8.2 package.
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--jim.