Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 14:39:55 -0500 From: Austin Shaw Hall <ash@vectorstar.net> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Fonts. Message-ID: <20020220143955.A28069@darkstar.bellsouth.net> In-Reply-To: <20020220082220.GA1428@hades.hell.gr>; from keramida@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:22:20AM %2B0200 References: <000c01c1b8c3$101a7f30$0abf7842@posthuman> <20020220082220.GA1428@hades.hell.gr>
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On Wednesday 20 February Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > On 2002-02-18 13:27, Ayman Zarka. wrote: > > > > Hello, ( I think my first email got lost ) > > Most likely it didn't. It could be that nobody knows how to reply, with a > solution that has been tested and is known to work. > > > I'm running FreeBSD 4.4 RELEASE, no X installed on the machine. and I > > need to install Arabic fonts; and I would like to be able to use it in > > several applications, such as: EPIC , mail, editor etc... > > As long as you manage to have an xterm running with Arabic fonts, all the > applications that run in a terminal should be able to at least display > characters in Arabic. For instance, I don't need to do anything special to > read Greek characters in vim, once I start an xterm with the proper font: > > xterm -fn lucidasanstypewriter-greek-12 > > I don't know where and how one might look for Arabic X11 fonts though. Start here: http://www.arabfsf.org/ Austin -- Be free and open and breezy! Enjoy! Things won't get any better so get used to it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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