see this link
http://www.arabeyes.org/download/documents/howto/arabic-howto-en/index.html
it covers every thing about arabic-support in linux
I think it should be more famous
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thanks for this nice and useful linke

What a shame!
The document is incomplete :(

well i guess hope it's work in progress
what worries me is that i dont think even when
it becomes complete that i will be useful

for exmaple, the section about the X-sever keyboard layout setting, simply doesnt work

i followed instructions, and it doesnt work
something is missing , i dont know what it is
there is not sign sayin that there is something missing
and no hint what to do to find whats missing

the only way i could think of to solve this
is to read more manuals about xfree86 until i figure it out , from the status of the xfree86 doc, i expect this to take me something like a month

i never found a single doc that describe the different components and pieces of xfree86

Originally posted by SYStems

for exmaple, the section about the X-sever keyboard layout setting, simply doesnt work

which part exactly ?

section 5.3

i don't have the this $X11DIR/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/ar
file (i am using debian woody by the way)

this link is dead http://www.arabeyes.org/download/3rd/arabic.xkb

and the file doesnt tell you what to do with
the arabic.xkb file when u get it

adding it to $X11DIR/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/
doesnt work

plus a brief explanation of why i need to do this
step or type those command would be nice

and another thing i know that you can find out
what the arguments in this command
$ setxkbmap -rules xfree86 -model pc102 -layout ar -variant nodeadkeys ar
from the the man page do
but just spitting out command is not being friendly

> don't have the this $X11DIR/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/ar file (i am using debian
> woody by the way)

$X11DIR is your X11 installation prefix. In most cases it'll be /usr
$ ls -lh /usr/X11R6//lib/X11/xkb/symbols/ar
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 7.3k Nov 23 2002
/usr/X11R6//lib/X11/xkb/symbols/ar


> this link is dead http://www.arabeyes.org/download/3rd/arabic.xkb
Submit a bug report ;-)


It's a HOWTO Not a manual, Suppose you are a newbie, All you want is Arabic,
Why bother with other stuff ? + It's a work in progress.!

Stop that uniball
the document is good...
,
,
,

Originally posted by hosam_dergham
Stop that uniball
the document is good...


stop what ??
And who said that it's bad ?

to SYStems
this page contain some arabic downloads
http://www.linux.org.sa/download/download.html
and the arabic.xkb is one of them
http://www.linux.org.sa/download/arabic.xkb

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here is the www.pango.org the arabic.xkb link is
http://www.pango.org/arabic.xkb

and you can use the command
xkbcomp -R/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/ /path/to/arabic.xkb :0
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