international fonts and character encodings

[Basil Fowler]

Christopher,

ISO 8859-6 is the Arabic charset.  It also includes letters particular to 
Farsi, in the same way that iso-8859-15 contains more glyphs than is required 
for American English.

I have to disagree with James Richard Tyler - there are normal fonts with this 
charset - I am using them. There is nothing wrong with unicode fonts, give 
them a try. 

I too had blocks until I had fonts available that supported ISO 8859-6.

Microsoft Arial, Times and Courier New support this charset. I can embed 
Arabic into Kmail thus و ة ى ﻻ  ر   or  Farsi thus و پ د ذ ر .  These letters 
correspond to the M -> C keys on an en_GB keyboard.  You will notice that the 
characters are different for the two languages.

Here is the list of relevant entries in my fonts.dir. 

timesbd.ttf -monotype-Times New Roman-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6
cour.ttf -monotype-Courier New-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-6
tahoma.ttf -microsoft-Tahoma-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6
arialbd.ttf -monotype-Arial-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6
courbd.ttf -monotype-Courier New-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-6
times.ttf -monotype-Times New Roman-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6
tahomabd.ttf -microsoft-Tahoma-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6
arial.ttf -monotype-Arial-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6
timesbd.ttf -monotype-Times New Roman-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6
cour.ttf -monotype-Courier New-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-6
tahoma.ttf -microsoft-Tahoma-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6
arialbd.ttf -monotype-Arial-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6
courbd.ttf -monotype-Courier New-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-6
times.ttf -monotype-Times New Roman-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6
tahomabd.ttf -microsoft-Tahoma-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6
arial.ttf -monotype-Arial-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6

Hope this helps

Basil



On Wednesday 25 Feb 2004 7:29 pm, Christopher Marshall wrote:
> 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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