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 -- .~. nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu /V\ http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/ // \\ @ maenad.net /( )\ www.maenad.net ^`~'^ *------------------------------------------------------------------------* * http://www.aidsmarathon.com/participant.asp?runner=DCNO-3267&year=2003 * *------------------------------------------------------------------------* * Please help me raise money for AIDS as I train for * * the Whitman-Walker AIDS Marathon! * *------------------------------------------------------------------------*
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