On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:21:39AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > [05:09:10 tmp]$ grep-available -PX xfonts-intl-arabic > Package: xfonts-intl-arabic
Which are couple of fonts in an Emacs-only encoding, not useful outside of Emacs. > Please note that in general Linux distros have problems with Arabic that are > much severe then the fonts issue: > The right to left (RTL) direction and the changing of the font according to > context (or something similar) are way from being solved, especially, but not > limited to, text consoles. And these are far difficult problems then one > might > think at first look. For a large set of programs, the solution is using QT 3.0 or libgtk 2.4 (or is it 3.0?). > Hopefully you will find interest in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing > list. > Although it is administrated by an Israeli volunteers, it does have > participants from other countries. And this is because the RTL problem is > shared among Arabic and Hebrew. But RTL is only a part of the problem. Arabeyes is a much better site for general Arabization, including Arabic font making. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Pointless website: http://dvdeug.dhis.org When the aliens come, when the deathrays hum, when the bombers bomb, we'll still be freakin' friends. - "Freakin' Friends"