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
On Wednesday 25 Feb 2004 3:48 pm, Christopher Marshall wrote:
> I am trying to use KDE with farsi fonts and characters. I am using KDE 3.1.
>
> I've had some luck with kwrite and I am wondering how to get other KDE
applications to let me type
> in farsi and have the characters displayed correctly.
>
> Here's what I've done / figured out so far.
>
> I installed the kde farsi i18n package and went to the control
center->regional &
> accessibility->keyboard layout section and enabled the farsi keymap as an
additional keymap I can
> choose at the application level.
>
> I now have an American flag (close to the clock in the lower right hand
corner of the screen)
> which changes to an Iranian flag when I click on it.
>
> If I am in kwrite, and I toggle the keyboard to farsi and start typing, all
I get are boxes for
> characters, which I take to be place holders for missing fonts.
>
> It seems that kwrite lets you set the character encoding explicitly to
utf16, utf8, and quite a
> few other choices as well. By setting the character encoding to utf16 and
looking at a hex dump
> of the output, I can tell that the farsi keyboard layout is working because
characters in the 0600
> to 06ff range (the unicode range reserved for Arabic characters) are being
put in the document
> when I type.
>
> The characters I type, though, are written left to right in kwrite and not
right to left. Is
> there a way to fix that?
>
> Can anyone advise me on how to get farsi the correct farsi/arabic fonts
recognized in KDE?
>
> Chris Marshall
>
>
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