arabic fonts

wael_nasreddine · 03-21-2005, 10:50 PM

hello,
i'm sharing an external HDD using samba with other windows PCs, but i can't see any arabic named file, any suggestions??

i've installed the xfonts-intl-arabic package nothing changed

aaa · 03-21-2005, 11:27 PM

Can you see local files in arabic? If so then it is a samba problem which I'm not sure about. If not, make sure you have the appropriate modules loaded in the kernel (codepage utf-8,etc). Also make sure the program you're using to view supports arabic.

wael_nasreddine · 03-21-2005, 11:30 PM

no i can't see from locale neither

aaa · 03-23-2005, 03:41 PM

You need to mount it with the right codepage:
mount /dev/hda1 /win -t vfat -o codepage=864,iocharset=utf8
You can do the same with smb shares. See this page:
http://www.koolpages.com/jornix/ar/arabic.html

wael_nasreddine · 03-24-2005, 04:00 AM

thanks but that didn't work, i'll check it out again, thanks anyway