arabic unicode in terminals

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

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    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 

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