Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-24 Thread Anton Zinoviev
On 21.IX.2001 at 05:48 Sulaiman Fahad Alhasawi wrote: > > who maintain arabic fonts/programs ? > If yes , may i know who ? if no , can some one > > apply to do so ? I would like to maintain Arabic fonts for Debian. Can you give me URLs where I can find such fonts? Anton Zinoviev, [EMAIL P

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-24 Thread David Starner
On Mon, Sep 24, 2001 at 05:05:10AM +0200, Shaul Karl wrote: > There has to be a standard way to at least have basic unix utils like grep, > ed, diff and friends to work on files with multi lingual contents and still > have a reasonable user interface and means to display their output. diff and g

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-23 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 10:16:02PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > > > For a large set of programs, the solution is using QT 3.0 or libgtk 2.4 > > > (or is it 3.0?). > > > > I still do not find it satisfactory, mostly because it is not part of the > > native Unix environment and as such not suited

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-23 Thread Sulaiman Fahad Alhasawi
fortunately im not not newbie to unix . like i said i was curious to know about arabization in debian . and i would like to participate in that feild . I think i need a recomendation from a debian developer .. -- On Sun, 23 Sep 2001 22:35:47 Shaul Karl wrote: >> >> yeah RTL is tru

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-23 Thread David Starner
On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 10:16:02PM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > > For a large set of programs, the solution is using QT 3.0 or libgtk 2.4 > > (or is it 3.0?). > > I still do not find it satisfactory, mostly because it is not part of the > native Unix environment and as such not suited for console

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-23 Thread Shaul Karl
> > yeah RTL is true about arabic . And it could be > > solved by making an arabic keymap . That is the point. As far as I know, The it is far more complex then one tend to think at first glance, especially when you want multi lingual support. And the keymap, which can be made quite easily

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-23 Thread Shaul Karl
> On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:21:39AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > > [05:09:10 tmp]$ grep-available -PX xfonts-intl-arabic > > Package: xfonts-intl-arabic > > Which are couple of fonts in an Emacs-only encoding, not useful > outside of Emacs. > > > Please note that in general Linux distros have prob

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-21 Thread Sulaiman Fahad Alhasawi
yeah RTL is true about arabic . And it could be solved by making an arabic keymap . Just for curiosity , do you have arabic developers who maintain arabic fonts/programs ? If yes , may i know who ? if no , can some one apply to do so ? Thanks all for your help -- On Fri, 21 Sep 2

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-21 Thread David Starner
On Fri, Sep 21, 2001 at 05:21:39AM +0300, Shaul Karl wrote: > [05:09:10 tmp]$ grep-available -PX xfonts-intl-arabic > Package: xfonts-intl-arabic Which are couple of fonts in an Emacs-only encoding, not useful outside of Emacs. > Please note that in general Linux distros have problems with Arabic

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-21 Thread Shaul Karl
> Hi there > > I dont find any packge that supports iso 8859-6 > -- that is arabic fonts . > [05:09:10 tmp]$ grep-available -PX xfonts-intl-arabic Package: xfonts-intl-arabic Priority: optional Section: x11 Installed-Size: 62 Maintainer: Milan Zamazal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Architecture: all Sou

Re: iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-20 Thread David Starner
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 04:03:11PM -0700, Sulaiman Fahad Alhasawi wrote: > I dont find any packge that supports iso 8859-6 > -- that is arabic fonts . Try iso10646-1 fonts. The fixed fonts at 10x20, 9x15, 9x15B and helvR12 all have most of the Arabic characters, as does the GNU Unifont. You migh

iso 8859-6 fonts

2001-09-19 Thread Sulaiman Fahad Alhasawi
Hi there I dont find any packge that supports iso 8859-6 -- that is arabic fonts . Do you need some arabic people to participate in arabic fonts project ? It would be my pleasure . Im from Kuwait and arabic is my mother tongue . Thanks Join 18 million Eudora users by signing up f