adding support for arabic language

ximagol · 04-25-2006, 03:15 PM

hello all,

i want to add arabic support (or fonts?) so i can see arabic websites. how i can do this? (besides installing slackware all over again)

thanks

saikee · 04-25-2006, 03:22 PM

There is a distro from Jordan call Arabian which claims to offer Arabic language support. Pretty nice and modern distro too as I have it installed in my box. Don't know any Arabic myself but Arabian also supports English.

Alien_Hominid · 04-25-2006, 03:22 PM

Install all X11-fonts packages.

ximagol · 04-26-2006, 06:06 AM

i guess i got them all, x11-fonts-100dpi ,x11-fonts-cyrillic , x11-fonts-misc , x11-fonts-scale, and still nothing :\ whats missing here?

example of site with arabic font: en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Arabic/Basic_Phrases

ximagol · 04-26-2006, 09:09 AM

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