On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 09:51:03PM -0400, Stephen Gran wrote:
| 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!).
Try vim. It has support for Right-to-Left languages. When you
configure it, though, you'll need to tell it to use a fontset with
fixed-width Unicode glyphs. I've found
set guifontset=-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--18-120-100-100-c-90
to work pretty decent (on the test files) though it lacks some glyphs.
I don't know if that fontset has arabic stuff.
That's the best I can help since I really don't use anything other
than english. I hope it works out for you and your dad!
-D
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but the wicked bring shame and disgrace.
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