hey all,
i'm trying to set myself up to deal with a lot of arabic data at work,
all of which is encoded in UTF-8. 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. can 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
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