James,
One of the gotchas with truetype fonts is that a special program has to be used to generate fonts.dir. It is 'mkttfdir'.
Actually, the new version: >= 4.3.0 of XFree86 contains new: "mkfontscale" & "mkfontdir" that are *supposed* to handle TrueType fonts. As I implied, there might be a problem with them that is the cause of this. I also find that I do not have an encoding for "8859-6" and that might also be a problem.
Once this is done, the resulting 'fonts.dir' has to be copied to 'fonts.scale' in the same directory.
I always preferred to run have "mkttfdir" produce the: "fonts.scale" and then run: "mkfontdir" to make the: "fonts.dir".
So, I removed "fonts.scale" & "fonts.dir" and opened the directory with the KDE Font Installer (su mode) and it produced a: "fonts.dir" that does include the "8859-6" entries. Go figure. :-|
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.
It would be nice if KDE used the KDE Font Installer to do that when KDE started up rather than the broken code in the: "startkde" script. However, for the system level fonts, it would have to be KDM that called it since it would have to be run as root.
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.
No, there is just one UniCode. The "-1" is just there to conform to the format of the XLFD lines.
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