Reading Arabic in Linux terminal
 

HI,
I am unabla to read Arabic file when I open them in a terminal using vi. How can I solve this problemand be able to read both English and Arabic. I tried the different character codings I have ( Windows-1256, ISO-8859-6, IBM-864) but it didn't work.
Please help me
Ghita

try looking here
http://www.arabeyes.org/docs.php
i thing there is a backend for the terminal called "akka"
i think they even are off on a new way to do it now called "bicon"
them guys got major code chops