Re: arabic unicode in terminals

2004-02-03 Thread Robert Voppmann
(At least some of) the default uxterm fonts don't span the whole Unicode codeset. Perhaps you just have to use another font? hm, that would make sense! i'm unsure what terminal fonts to go for, though -- google yields a lot of confusing results here. can you (or anyone else) suggest one?

Re: arabic unicode in terminals

2004-02-02 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Sun, 01 Feb 2004 04:19:36AM +0100, Jan Minar insinuated: On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 05:32:46PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: which i understand has good UTF-8 support[1]). but i still get all kinds of non-arabic characters. (At least some of) the default uxterm fonts don't span the whole

Re: arabic unicode in terminals

2004-02-02 Thread Jan Minar
On Mon, Feb 02, 2004 at 03:15:19PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Sun, 01 Feb 2004 04:19:36AM +0100, Jan Minar insinuated: On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 05:32:46PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: which i understand has good UTF-8 support[1]). but i still get all kinds of non-arabic characters.

Re: arabic unicode in terminals

2004-01-31 Thread Jan Minar
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 05:32:46PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: which i understand has good UTF-8 support[1]). but i still get all kinds of non-arabic characters. (At least some of) the default uxterm fonts don't span the whole Unicode codeset. Perhaps you just have to use another font? HTH

arabic unicode in terminals

2004-01-30 Thread Nori Heikkinen
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