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how to setup arabic x-window-system



Hello, 

preparing an education project for Marocco (Using WOODY, fvwm 2.5.8) 
I need to setup the x-window-system using french and arabic. 

OK, I have created xmodmap_ar and xmodmap_fr and with the following 
font 

-mutt-clearlyu arabic extra-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-103-fontspecific-0
-etl-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-240-72-72-c-240-mulearabic-2

I have gotten arabic window titles, icon descriptions and menus, but 
from reight-to-left :-/ 

This happens becaus freebidi which I use reverse the left-to-right text 
but support only iso-8859-6, iso-8859-8 and iso-10646-1.

I have 18.000 Fonts on my devel-station but the font 

-arabic-newspaper-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-0-iso10646-1

give me no output... Can anyone help me to get the arabic stuff running. 

My problem is, that I migrate to Marocco in July/August and I need a 
working Arabic-Debian urgently. 

Oh yes, I get in my 

  ______ ( '/home/michelle/.Xsession-errors' ) _________________________
 /
|  [FVWM][FlocaleSetlocaleForX]: WARNING -- X does not support locale ar_MA
|  [FVWM][FlocaleLoadFont]: WARNING -- Unkown charset for font
|  	'-mutt-clearlyu arabic extra-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-103-fontspecific-0'
|  [FVWM][FlocaleLoadFont]: WARNING -- Unkown charset for font
|  	'-*-terminal-medium-*-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*'
|  [FvwmTaskBar][FlocaleSetlocaleForX]: WARNING -- X does not support locale ar_MA
|  [FvwmButtons][FlocaleSetlocaleForX]: WARNING -- X does not support locale ar_MA
|  [FvwmButtons][FlocaleSetlocaleForX]: WARNING -- X does not support locale ar_MA
|  Warning: locale not supported by Xlib, locale set to C
|  [FvwmForm][FlocaleSetlocaleForX]: WARNING -- X does not support locale ar_MA
 \______________________________________________________________________

This is realy wired, because I have an Arabic fvwm 2.5.8 
(I can send a jpeg if desired.)

Greetings
Michelle

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