Writing in Arabic under KDE

[Basil Fowler]

I am not an Arabic speaker, but I have set up KDE in Arabic and Farsi for a 
Kurdish friend.

Firstly I presume that you are using KDE 3.1.x.  You must download Arabic 
support (the file is kde-3.1.1/kde3-i18n-ar-3.1.3-0.noarch.rpm obtainable 
from www.kde.org). I used the Mandrake packages, which also loads Arabic 
locales. 

Secondly, you must choose fonts that contain Arabic letters.  The Microsoft 
Arial, Times ttfs do.  The Nimbus fonts that come with Mandrake 9.2 also 
work. You must set the fonts in the applications that you intend to use.  
Here are some embedded Arabic letters ط ك م ن ت ا ل ب ي س ش .

Finally, before you can start, you must go into the Control Panel, 
Accessibility / Region and Language and add Arabic to the languages 
available.  Then go to Accessibility / Keyboard Layout. Enable keyboard 
layouts, and select Arabic in Additional Layouts. A little flag will appear 
in the system tray in the panel.  Click on this flag and the layouts will 
change automagically.

Open Office works perfectly in Arabic.

Hope this helps

Basil Fowler







On Tuesday 24 Feb 2004 12:09 pm, jad madi wrote:
> hi folks 
> i am having trouble with writing in arabic language under kde.. 
> any idea? stped to solve the problem 
> ah by the way 
> i am not able to write in arabic under kde at all 
> thank you 
> 
> 
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