Re: Bad Farsi Fonts or something

[Hedayat Vatankhah]

Hi, Medi Montaseri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on ۰۵/۱۲/۰۳ 05:48:49: Ok...so I downloaded http://www.farsiweb.info/font/farsifonts-0.4.zip and my unzip(1) program said .... You may need to download the file again. (I've downloaded it last year and it works) ....funny thing....the faulty operations I described can be fixed by pressing shift-d , that is regular 'd' generates the bad "ye" and 'shift-d' generates the correct version... This is the Arabic "ye" which you see using shift-d. I don't know about the Roya font you have, but I have one without any problem with Persain "ye". Anyway, your problem may be fixed by removing that unusable ugly fonts in /usr/share/fonts/bitmap-fonts: 9x15.pcf, 9x15b.pcf and another one which I think it's name was 10x*.pcf (I don't remember the * part, but it looks like that there is only one font starting with 10x). (Removing these files is the first thing I do after installing a Fedora version on a system). Finally, if you want more fonts than farsiweb fonts; I recommend using free B* fonts such as B Roya. I have done this before on FC2 and FC4 in KDE....this is my new FC4 box which I had to switch to gnome because the alt-shift keyboard switching was'nt working on KDE...anyway, I should'nt polute the problem... I don't know about your problem, but I always prefer to change X configuration file for Persian typing support. With this, you don't need to set it up for each user and for each desktop system. It works everywhere! It is very easy too: open the X config file (/etc/X11/xorg.conf in Fedora) as root and find this line:         Option      "XkbLayout" "us" Then, replace this line with these lines:         Option      "XkbLayout" "us,ir"         Option      "XkbOptions" "grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp:win_switch,grp_led:scroll" Save this file and restart the X window system. After this, you should be able to switch between Persian and English with Alt+Shift, or switching temporary  by holding Win key (only left one in FC4); and the scroll lock LED will be on when you can type in Persian. Good Luck, Hedayat Thanks guys... Medi On 12/2/05, Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Medi Montaseri wrote: > Hi > I am having some problems with my Farsi fonts on my browser and in gedit > on a Linux box (Fedor Core 4, Gnome ) > > My problem is > > Letter "Ye" is always rendered as though it was an independent or > detatched letter. For example, in the word "MILI" (as in mili-second) all > the > "Ye" letters are rendered as it would with "MEHDI" where "ye" is not > connected to "de". Basically, you don't have good fonts, and that's the default on FC4 unfortunately :(.  You need to install the FarsiWeb fonts package (available from http://farsiweb.info/) to start with. There is a fontconfig configuration file like this one:   http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~behdad/fonts-persian.conf This will be included in fontconfig-2.4 release coming soon. > Some help is appreciated. > Thanks > Medi --behdad http://behdad.org/ "Commandment Three says Do Not Kill, Amendment Two says Blood Will Spill"         -- Dan Bern, "New American Language"

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