international fonts and character encodings

[Christopher Marshall]

Basil:

I hadn't added Farsi to the available languages in the Accessibility / Country - Region and
Language.

I just tried doing that and as soon as I added it, the messages in the control center switched to
Farsi, with blocks representing the absense of a font to display those characters.

I did the grepping you suggested in my font directories and came up with nothing.

I take it my main problem at this point is not having those fonts.

What does ISO 8859-6 refer to / designate, BTW?

Thanks for your help!

Chris Marshall

--- Basil Fowler <bjfowler at chanzy.eclipse.co.uk> wrote:
> 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
> 
> 


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