[Kde-i18n-fa] Re: Farsi Language Screenshots

[Arash Zeini]

On Tuesday 01 July 2003 03:06, Aryan Ameri wrote:

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> OT PS: This should into bna-linuxiran mailing list, however as I am not
> sure wether you are a member or not, I thought I would risk getting
> flamed, and ask it here.
>
> You once told me that Java does support Farsi, and that you were
> involved in the team which was working on the internationalization of
> java. However, I have searched all the documents on can find on Sun's
> Java website (BTW did I tell you that Sun's website sucks ?) and can't
> find anything usefull there. There are docs, covering Japanese and
> chinese languages, but nothing about Arabic and Farsi. And I haven't
> yet been able to type farsi in java applications in Linux. are you
> aware of any docs/howto/guide which can help me in this regard ?
>
> Cheers

I think we two Arashes sat once and figured this out. It is, as always, a 
font problem. The default font loaded by Java programs doesn't include the 
glyphs needed for Farsi. So if you load the right font, then all is OK. I 
think this took care of our problem.

Greetings,
Arash
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