DSL Ideas and Suggestions :: Language Support



Impressive, :0

I would appriceate it if you would explain it step by step

I'm just beginner user :D
1. Download font: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/arabeyes/ae_fonts_mono.tar.bz2
2. Extract font:
tar xjf ae_fonts_mono.tar.bz2
The fonts are extracted in ./ae_fonts_mono.
There are 2 files, '10x21.bdf' and '10x21.pcf'. The '.pcf' is an optimized version of the bdf. You can remove the .bdf file.

3. You need "mkfontdir" to generate a font information file.
There is no easy way to get "mkfontdir" in DSL, so I uploaded it on rapidshare:
http://rapidshare.com/files/46407451/mkfontdir.dsl.html
To load the .dsl file:
mydsl-load mkfontdir.dsl
4. Make font information file:
mkfontdir ./ae_fonts_mono
5. Add the folder to the font path of the Xserver:
xset +fp /home/dsl/ae_fonts_mono
6. Re-generate the font cache:
xset fp rehash
7. Restart Firefox.
Firefox -> Edit -> Preferences -> Fonts & Colors -> Arabic -> Choose "arabeyes-fixed-iso10646-1" for all. - This is for pages which use Arabic encoding ["Arabic (Windows-1256)"].
Firefox -> Edit -> Preferences -> Fonts & Colors -> Unicode -> Choose "arabeyes-fixed-iso10646-1" for all. - This is for pages which use Arabic characters of Unicode encoding ["Unicode (UTF-8)"].
8. Test with Arabic websites.
tnanks pal, :D  

it works :D

now  can you find away to make the keybord typing arabic ?

I know you can make it :D
Download a keymap and place it in /usr/share/keymaps/i386/[...]

Then run DSLPanel > Keyboard
Select yours.
Restart X ( menu > exit - then run "startx" )

If you find a plaintext one that you wish to use (such as http://lists.arabeyes.org/archive....06.html ) you can take the text and put it in it's own <file>.kmap, run `gzip -9 <file>.kmap` before doing the above steps.

Alternatively you can make your own.
I dont got it

can you explain it step by step :(
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