Re: arabic unicode in terminals

2004-02-03 Thread Robert Voppmann
>> (At least some of) the default uxterm fonts don't span the whole Unicode >> codeset. Perhaps you just have to use another font? > > hm, that would make sense! i'm unsure what terminal fonts to go for, > though -- google yields a lot of confusing results here. can you (or > anyone else) sugge

Re: arabic unicode in terminals

2004-02-02 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 03:15:19PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > on Sun, 01 Feb 2004 04:19:36AM +0100, Jan Minar insinuated: > > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 05:32:46PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > > which i understand has good UTF-8 support[1]). but i still get > > > all kinds of non-arabic chara

Re: arabic unicode in terminals

2004-02-02 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sun, 01 Feb 2004 04:19:36AM +0100, Jan Minar insinuated: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 05:32:46PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > which i understand has good UTF-8 support[1]). but i still get > > all kinds of non-arabic characters. > > (At least some of) the default uxterm fonts don't span the w

Re: arabic unicode in terminals

2004-01-31 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 05:32:46PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > which i understand has good UTF-8 support[1]). but i still get all > kinds of non-arabic characters. (At least some of) the default uxterm fonts don't span the whole Unicode codeset. Perhaps you just have to use another font? HTH

arabic unicode in terminals

2004-01-30 Thread Nori Heikkinen
hey all, i'm trying to set myself up to deal with a lot of arabic data at work, all of which is encoded in UTF-8. sifting through hundreds of howtos and such about unicode in general, it seems that i _should_ be able to set my locales to ar_EG.UTF-8 (picked egypt semi at random), open an xterm wi