Hello all, I am trying to set up a box for my dad, who, bless his soul, is willing to confuse himself trying to learn linux as a result of some bad experiences with Windows and a some well written viruses. The problem I have is that he reads and writes many things in Arabic, although his first language is English. He would like to keep his default locale and charset set up for English, but use Arabic for some of his email and word processing. He will be working entirely from a GUI, so framebuffer support for using UTF-8 in console apps doesn't seem like the solution, although I have done that as well. I have generated an Arabic locale, and installed some arabic fonts for X, but I'mm not sure how to proceed - most apps don't see the fonts, much less do BiDi (bidirectional, or R to L and L to R typing). Any suggestions for how to proceed, or recommendations for apps that play nicely with BiDian dArabic charsets? So far, Mozilla _displays_ Arabic pages nicely, but I cannot get the email client to type in Arabic to save my life - it doesn't even know the fonts are available. And that would be about the farthest I've gotten. Using a new install of Woody (net install, by the way - went perfectly - good work all!). TIA, Steve -- "What terrible way to die." "There are no good ways." -- Sulu and Kirk, "That Which Survives", stardate unknown
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