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Date:      Wed, 20 Feb 2002 10:22:20 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@freebsd.org>
To:        "Ayman Zarka." <aymanzarka@sbcglobal.net>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD and Fonts.
Message-ID:  <20020220082220.GA1428@hades.hell.gr>
In-Reply-To: <000c01c1b8c3$101a7f30$0abf7842@posthuman>
References:  <000c01c1b8c3$101a7f30$0abf7842@posthuman>

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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.
You might want to search the XFree86 mailing lists, in case someone has
already posted useful pointers.  Then the article at

	http://www.FreeBSD.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/fonts

will be of some help, as you try to install these fonts in X11.

Giorgos Keramidas                           FreeBSD Documentation Project
keramida@{freebsd.org,ceid.upatras.gr}      http://www.FreeBSD.org/docproj/
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