is there really an arabic support in mandrake or it's just an option
cuz i've been trying to make it work but i don't think it will

i recieve square alien language charachters i think it's from mars:confused:

Hi ge3ga3,

Yes, Mandrake is wonderfully supporting Arabic in 9.1, and I am using it perfectly!

have you added the Arabic language in the setup process?

sorry but I can't help you with how to make it from inside Mandrake... I don't know how, but the control center is a ood start to investigate.

I just posted to tell you it is working, sorry for my limited information.

salam

Salamo 3alaikom,

Add arabic enabled fonts to your .fonts directory in your home directory. This square thing is due to absent ttf fonts that support arabic in your MDK. This topic has been thorougly answered on the forum by myself and by many others. Please do a search on the forum.

Salam.

> Add arabic enabled fonts to your .fonts directory in your home directory.
Installing stuff as fonts in your home directoty i not the Right Thing (TM)

either use drakfont "or was it fontdrake ?" to import winddows fonts or:
# urpmi ttf-fonts-arabic to install king abdel3azeez fonts.

or if you have windblow$ installed you can import the fonts using Fontdrake from the Mandrake Control Center.

BTW Mandrake installs Arabic fonts (and configures Arabic keyboard) for you if at installation time you choose Arabic as one of your locales.

however your Desktop might not default to using Arabic fonts (the free arabic fonts available look very bad when writing english) so you need to use
Gnome Control Center or KDE Control Panel to configure fonts.

cheers,
Alaa

Mandrake is the best foreig distro in arabic support
it comes with kacs* arabic font pre-installed
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but I think you don't know what your problem is
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in KDE like kedit when you open a file there is a small icon in the dialog "ABC" click on it and select the encoding you want
for example cp 1256 (arabic windows)
or isoxxx-6 (stanaded used in UTF-8) or UTF-8
and choose the correct font for example KacstLetter
by going to setting -> configure kwrite -> fonts ...
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to install ttf fonts goto mandy Control center and
system -> fonts -> advanced
and steal windows fonts (I hate that cuz there are good arabic fonts for free)
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to enable arabic key board goto Mandy CC and hardware keyboard and enable the arabic keyborad with Right(alt - shift)
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Gnome by the way uses font aliases (pango lib) so if you write arabic with a font that does not support arabic it use other font that support arabic automaticlly
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in other distro it's very deffecult see
www.koolpages.com/jornix/setup.html