[Kde-i18n-fa] farsi font

[Aryan Ameri]

On Friday 24 January 2003 13:22, mohammad soroushian wrote:
> Hi all,
> I'm using RedHat 8.0 and Mandrake 9.0 (in a multiple
> boot  system). I have chosen Farsi in both OSs, but no
> farsi font appeared. (I installed some additional
> Farsi Fonts).
> Is it possible to use Farsi Fonts in Linux? If yes,
> How? A lot of thanks in advance,

=D9=8CWell, Windows Farsi fonts use standards that are not recognized in  G=
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and KDE. To be able to read and write in farsi, KDE currently supports utf-=
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(Unicode) standard, so you shall use Unicode fonts, in orther to use farsi.=
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The best Unicode font currently is Arial Unicode MS, which is downloadable=
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from resource section of FarsiKDE website. there are also other Unicode=20
fonts, such as clearlyu and newspaper, but are not of high quality.

 Ofcourse, with a font editor program,   it is possible to Unicode all=20
existing Farsi fonts, but this needs time. I am willing to make some unicod=
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farsi fonts in near future, but I can always use a hand.

Cheers
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