yeah RTL is true about arabic . And it could be solved by making an arabic keymap . Just for
curiosity , do you have arabic developers who maintain arabic fonts/programs ? If yes , may i know who ? if no , can some one apply to do so ? Thanks all for your help -- On Fri, 21 Sep 2001 02:16:42 David Starner wrote: >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" > Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up for a free Eudora Web-Mail account at http://www.eudoramail.com