Christopher,
ISO 8859-6 is the Arabic charset. It also includes letters particular to
Farsi, in the same way that iso-8859-15 contains more glyphs than is required
for American English.
I have to disagree with James Richard Tyler - there are normal fonts with this
charset - I am using them. There is nothing wrong with unicode fonts, give
them a try.
I too had blocks until I had fonts available that supported ISO 8859-6.
Microsoft Arial, Times and Courier New support this charset. I can embed
Arabic into Kmail thus Ù Ø Ù ï Ø or Farsi thus Ù Ù Ø Ø Ø . These letters
correspond to the M -> C keys on an en_GB keyboard. You will notice that the
characters are different for the two languages.
Here is the list of relevant entries in my fonts.dir.
timesbd.ttf -monotype-Times New Roman-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6
cour.ttf -monotype-Courier New-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-6
tahoma.ttf -microsoft-Tahoma-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6
arialbd.ttf -monotype-Arial-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6
courbd.ttf -monotype-Courier New-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-6
times.ttf -monotype-Times New Roman-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6
tahomabd.ttf -microsoft-Tahoma-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6
arial.ttf -monotype-Arial-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6
timesbd.ttf -monotype-Times New Roman-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6
cour.ttf -monotype-Courier New-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-6
tahoma.ttf -microsoft-Tahoma-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6
arialbd.ttf -monotype-Arial-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6
courbd.ttf -monotype-Courier New-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-6
times.ttf -monotype-Times New Roman-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6
tahomabd.ttf -microsoft-Tahoma-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6
arial.ttf -monotype-Arial-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6
Hope this helps
Basil
On Wednesday 25 Feb 2004 7:29 pm, Christopher Marshall wrote:
> Basil:
>
> I hadn't added Farsi to the available languages in the Accessibility /
Country - Region and
> Language.
>
> I just tried doing that and as soon as I added it, the messages in the
control center switched to
> Farsi, with blocks representing the absense of a font to display those
characters.
>
> I did the grepping you suggested in my font directories and came up with
nothing.
>
> I take it my main problem at this point is not having those fonts.
>
> What does ISO 8859-6 refer to / designate, BTW?
>
> Thanks for your help!
>
> Chris Marshall
>
> --- Basil Fowler <bjfowler@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 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
> >
> >
>
>
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