changing Arabic font under Konqueror (Sarge-->Etch)

[Hugo Coolens]

2007/11/2, Luciano Montanaro <mikelima at cirulla.net>:
>
> Il Friday 02 November 2007 11:00:14 Hugo Coolens ha scritto:
> > I recently made the step to Debian Etch. Unfortunately the font used
> > in Konqueror to display Arabic is not as good as it was under Sarge.
> > I have put screendumps on my website so you can
> > see the difference:
> > http://antec2.dyndns.org/~coolens/hugocoolens/download/etch.gif
> > http://antec2.dyndns.org/~coolens/hugocoolens/download/sarge.gif
> >
> >
> > Does anyone here know how I can bring back the font used in Debian
> > Sarge Konqueror to Debian Etch Konqueror?
> >
> > best regards,
> > Hugo
> > p.s.1 I am also interested in the _names_ of the two fonts
> > p.s. 2 The only problem with the old font was that I got a white box
> > when there was a so called uplifted 'alif maqSuura e.g. on a yaa', the
> > new font does perform even worse by displaying the white box behind
> > the character.
>
> Hi, my guess is that the in the newer version you are using DejaVu sans,
> which
> has the Arabic codepoints now. I don't know the name of the other font.
>
> You may want to contact the people of the
> dejavu-fonts at lists.sourceforge.net
> with your issues with the font. I'm sure they are interested in listening
> to
> your problems.


Well, I finally discovered which font was used in Konqueror in Debian Sarge:
It was just good old Times New Roman, and the good thing is that it also
works well in Konqueror under Debian Etch, it even displays the lifted 'alif
correctly.

regards,
Hugo

Luciano
>
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