arabic unicode in terminals

From: Nori Heikkinen (nori_at_sccs.swarthmore.edu)
Date: 01/30/04

  • Next message: Derrick 'dman' Hudson: "Re: Email client programs" 
    Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 17:32:46 -0500
To: debian-user <debian-user@lists.debian.org>

    hey all,

    i'm trying to set myself up to deal with a lot of arabic data at work,
    all of which is encoded in UTF-8. sifting through hundreds of howtos
    and such about unicode in general, it seems that i _should_ be able to
    set my locales to ar_EG.UTF-8 (picked egypt semi at random), open an
    xterm with the -u8 flag, and then view files (say, in cat, or vim,
    which i understand has good UTF-8 support[1]). but i still get all
    kinds of non-arabic characters.

    while i can't see utf8 arabic, i _can_ see utf8 IPA fonts[2] using
    `xterm -u8`. i realize that i need to get a bi-directional library
    like libfribidi0, as xterm doesn't (and won't[3] support
    bi-directional text by itself), and i have ... but that's secondary
    right now, as i can't see the script at all.

    i've been reading up on this for days. can anyone point me to a good
    arabic UTF-8 howto, or something similar?

    thanks so much,

    </nori>

    [1] http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Unicode-HOWTO-4.html#ss4.4
    [2] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/ipa-chart.txt
    [3] http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/unicode.html#xterm 

    -- 
    .~.      nori @ sccs.swarthmore.edu
    /V\  http://www.sccs.swarthmore.edu/~nori/jnl/
   // \\          @ maenad.net
  /(   )\       www.maenad.net
   ^`~'^
*------------------------------------------------------------------------*
* http://www.aidsmarathon.com/participant.asp?runner=DCNO-3267&year=2003 *
*------------------------------------------------------------------------*
*           Please help me raise money for AIDS as I train for           *
*                  the Whitman-Walker AIDS Marathon!                     *
*------------------------------------------------------------------------*



    -- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org 
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
  • Next message: Derrick 'dman' Hudson: "Re: Email client programs"

    Relevant Pages