From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Feb 20 11:41:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from vectorstar.net (adsl-78-163-177.gnv.bellsouth.net [216.78.163.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 320E937B4C7 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 11:40:11 -0800 (PST) Received: (from ash@localhost) by vectorstar.net (8.11.6/8.11.3) id g1KJdtu28144 for questions@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 20 Feb 2002 14:39:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from ash@vectorstar.net) Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 14:39:55 -0500 From: Austin Shaw Hall To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Fonts. Message-ID: <20020220143955.A28069@darkstar.bellsouth.net> Mail-Followup-To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <000c01c1b8c3$101a7f30$0abf7842@posthuman> <20020220082220.GA1428@hades.hell.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020220082220.GA1428@hades.hell.gr>; from keramida@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Feb 20, 2002 at 10:22:20AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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