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?
I believe that your only problem is the lack of a font.
Basil's suggestion isn't going to help since there are no normal fonts with ISO8859-6 (Farsi). What this means is that you are probably going to have to use a UniCode font. You can use the same 'grep' but look for: "10646-1". However, this doesn't mean that the font will work since UniCode fonts don't always have all glyphs.
I tried this and if I select the Iranian keyboard layout and type in KWrite, I get something that looks like Arabic but it it is slightly different -- I hope that it is Farsi script.
Perhaps there is some help here:
http://www.farsikde.org/
My fonts HOWTO is in need of a major rewrite, but it is available at:
http://home.earthlink.net/~tyrerj/files/Fonts Mini HOWTO.txt
I would try installing the MS-TrueType fonts:
http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
-- JRT
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