James,
One of the gotchas with truetype fonts is that a special program has to be
used to generate fonts.dir. It is 'mkttfdir' . Once this is done, the
resulting 'fonts.dir' has to be copied to 'fonts.scale' in the same
directory.
The older Red Hat distros had an excellent init script kept in
/etc/rc.d/init.d that automatically updated all font directories on startup
if needed.
You produced a whole load of fonts encoded 10646-1. My guess for Arabic - and
other languages using the Arabic alphabet - would be that the encoding should
be 10646-6. But perhaps others could check this out.
On Thursday 26 Feb 2004 2:11 am, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> We are left with a mystery here. The solution to it may or may not be
> relevant to his problem.
>
> I have those fonts installed, however I do not have those entries in my
> fonts.dir.
>
> [root@localhost fonts]# cat msttfonts/fonts.dir |grep "8859-6"
> [root@localhost fonts]# cat msttfonts/fonts.dir |grep "10646" |grep
"edium-"
> andalemo.ttf -monotype-andale mono-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-c-0-iso10646-1
> arial.ttf -monotype-arial-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1
> Note that the first command lists nothing and that I had to add "edium-"
> to the second one to shorten the list.
>
> I really don't have an explanation, but it probably has something to do
> with XFree86 and the font installer programs.
>
> It is my understanding that these fonts are UniCode encoded but that
> XFree86 will subset them. In his case, I think that this isn't relevant
> since he will probably want to use utf8 encoding for his files. I don't
> know exactly what I would do on my system to use 8859-6 encoding in non-KDE
> programs
>
> --
> JRT
>
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