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Submitted by khaledhosny on Wed, 02/08/2006 - 4:56pm.
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Emacs

Submitted by MSameer on Wed, 02/08/2006 - 7:03pm.

If you use the CVS version of emacs, You can write Arabic in it!

http://www.foolab.org/emacs_arabic_pic

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who is speaking about emacs !

Submitted by khaledhosny on Thu, 03/08/2006 - 11:18am.

This w3m within mlterm, I can't see any emaces here.

BTW vim works for arabic, even without Arabic mode, nano works too, so who needs a buggy emacs cvs version to write in arabic :P

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White boxes

Submitted by hammady on Sat, 18/07/2009 - 2:15pm.

I have just installed mlterm. I am only seeing white boxes instead of Arabic text. My current locale is en_US.UTF-8. mlterm is configured to use UTF-8. What am i missing here? Thanks

You are missing a

Submitted by MSameer on Sun, 19/07/2009 - 12:48am.

You are missing a font.

Try installing this arabeyes font

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I already have the fonts. I

Submitted by hammady on Wed, 22/07/2009 - 10:01pm.

I already have the fonts. I did apt-get install ttf-kacst ttf-arabeyes (I am on Ubuntu 9.04). The problem is already there!

I already asked you to

Submitted by MSameer on Thu, 23/07/2009 - 1:36pm.

I already asked you to install the font I linked to. I don't care about anything else.

You should also add this line to ~/.mlterm/font 


ISO10646_UCS4_1=-arabeyes-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso10646-1;

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hammady@hammady-laptop:~$

Submitted by hammady on Wed, 22/07/2009 - 10:04pm.
hammady@hammady-laptop:~$ xlsfonts | grep arab -arabeyes-aahs-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 -arabeyes-aahs-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6 -arabeyes-aga-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 -arabeyes-aga-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6 -arabeyes-aga-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 -arabeyes-aga-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6 -arabeyes-fs-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 -arabeyes-fs-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6 -arabeyes-kasr-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 -arabeyes-kasr-bold-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6 -arabeyes-kasr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 -arabeyes-kasr-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6 -arabeyes-mcs-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 -arabeyes-mcs-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6 -arabeyes-shmookh-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1 -arabeyes-shmookh-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso8859-6 -arabic-newspaper-medium-r-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-iso10646-1 -arabic-newspaper-medium-r-normal--32-246-100-100-p-137-iso10646-1 -mutt-clearlyu arabic extra-medium-r-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-fontspecific-0 -mutt-clearlyu arabic extra-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-101-fontspecific-0 -mutt-clearlyu arabic-medium-r-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-iso10646-1 -mutt-clearlyu arabic-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-93-iso10646-1

I also added this line at the end of all /etc/mlterm/*font: ISO10646_UCS4_1_BIWIDTH=-arabeyes-aahs-medium-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-iso10646-1

any idea?

Fixed

Submitted by hammady on Fri, 24/07/2009 - 12:20pm.

Fixed by adding this line: ISO10646_UCS2_1=Courier New-iso10646-1; or any other font like Albattar, almatin, ... to ~/.mlterm/aafont or /etc/mlterm/aafont

Thanks to this post: http://www.eglug.org/MltermHowto

P.S: please be more thoughtful while writing your replies. Thanks

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