Well I think I cannot help but what I wanted to say is WOW and big respect for a finnish person interested in Arabic...
yours Arafat Medini Am Mo, den 02.02.2004 schrieb Nori Heikkinen um 21:33: > Hi all, > > I'm running Debian, and I'm trying to set up my terminals to deal with > Arabic UTF-8 data. 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. Do I need a Unicode terminal > font that supports Arabic, and if so, can someone reccomend one? > Also, could 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 _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
