international fonts and character encodings

[Basil Fowler]

Hi,

You need fonts that contain ISO  8859-6.  Go to /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts and 
look through every fonts.dir that you can find   ( best -  cat <dir/fonts.dir 
| grep 8859-6 ).  You will be be surprised how few there are.  The only ones 
I have found are the Microsoft Arial, Times and Courier.

Did you add Iran to the available languages in Accessibility / Country - 
Region and Language ?  I have a feeling that that is necessary to inform KDE 
that the Farsi package is installed, but I am not certain.

Open Office works perfectly with Arabic and Farsi.

Best of luck

Basil


On Wednesday 25 Feb 2004 3:48 pm, Christopher Marshall wrote:
> I am trying to use KDE with farsi fonts and characters.  I am using KDE 3.1.
> 
> I've had some luck with kwrite and I am wondering how to get other KDE 
applications to let me type
> in farsi and have the characters displayed correctly.
> 
> Here's what I've done / figured out so far.
> 
> I installed the kde farsi i18n package and went to the control 
center->regional &
> accessibility->keyboard layout section and enabled the farsi keymap as an 
additional keymap I can
> choose at the application level.
> 
> I now have an American flag (close to the clock in the lower right hand 
corner of the screen)
> which changes to an Iranian flag when I click on it.
> 
> If I am in kwrite, and I toggle the keyboard to farsi and start typing, all 
I get are boxes for
> characters, which I take to be place holders for missing fonts.
> 
> It seems that kwrite lets you set the character encoding explicitly to 
utf16, utf8, and quite a
> few other choices as well.  By setting the character encoding to utf16 and 
looking at a hex dump
> of the output, I can tell that the farsi keyboard layout is working because 
characters in the 0600
> to 06ff range (the unicode range reserved for Arabic characters) are being 
put in the document
> when I type.
> 
> The characters I type, though, are written left to right in kwrite and not 
right to left.  Is
> there a way to fix that?
> 
> Can anyone advise me on how to get farsi the correct farsi/arabic fonts 
recognized in KDE?
> 
> Chris Marshall
> 
> 
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