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logicdisaster
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 Posted: Fri Dec 17, 2004 8:54 pm Post subject: Arabic Support |
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| I have a gentoo system installed but now I need to add support for arabic. I've emerged the arabeyes fonts but I really need to make it like how windows is where i can switch between english and arabic typing is there a way that i can do this? Or is there just some way i can type in arabic without having to copy characters from the character map program? |
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Xaid
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Location: Edmonton / Alberta
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Hi.
I saw this pop up in portage a while ago so you might want to give it a shot, its called:
Katoob (you can emerge it)
if you check the homepage for it there are a few other programs and utils to write in arabic (this is the same site for the fonts that you installed).
let me know if this works for you. |
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gen2fox
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| Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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What desktop environment do you use?
In Gnome, right-click a panel, Add to panel > Utils > Keyboard Indicator, then open its properties and add Arabic.
In KDE, open Control Center, Regional and Accessibility (or something like that), and add Arabic to keyboard layouts. |
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logicdisaster
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| Posted: Tue Dec 21, 2004 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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| Okay i have the keyboard layout set but its still just english type is there something else i have to install to make it use arabic. I installed the fonts... but still get english characters |
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gen2fox
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Which DE?
Did you click the layout switcher to change layout from English to Arabic? |
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