Re: Typing Right-To-Left language characters in GtkEntry

[Gaurav Jain <gaurav anywhere gmail com>]

Hello Edward,

Thanks for your useful inputs.  I browsed the site that you mentioned,
and downloaded the TTF arabic fonts.  I installed these using the
guide at http://eyegene.ophthy.med.umich.edu/unicode/index.html#kdefontinst.
 ( using the mkfontscale and mkfontdir commands, and then adding the
path to /etc/X11/XF86Config).

Here's what I did after that:
- re-logged in RH9 with KDE session
- went to Control Center > Regional & Accessibility > Keyboard Layout,
and changed the "primary layout" to Arabic.

Now when I try to type any command or anything else on the terminal
window, I can't see anything.  And when I press ENTER, it gives me an
error: "bash:      :command not found".
I think I have missed a crucial step somewhere.  Please help me.

Thanks again,
Gaurav

On 6/8/05, Edward H. Trager <ehtrager umich edu> wrote:
> On Wednesday 2005.06.08 17:14:13 +0530, Gaurav Jain wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I need to enter Right-To-Left language characters (such as Arabic and
> > Hebrew) in a GtkEntry widget.  I'm using Red Hat Linux 9.0 and have
> > logged in the Arabic language session.  I then set the locale to
> > "ar_SA.utf8".  Then I run my small GTK program which has a GtkEntry
> > widget.
> >
> > But I'm stuck at this point where I need an input method to enter the
> > arabic characters.  Could somebody help?
> 
> In Gnome, as in KDE, I'm sure there is a way to set up multiple keyboards quite easily
> via a GUI -- I did it before when I was testing Ubuntu, but currently I'm using
> KDE so someone else will have to provide you specifics on this part ...
> >
> > (I tried using xmodmap to load an arabic keyboard mapping, but then
> > nothing happened.  I also need to know where I can get arabic fonts
> > from, if required).
> 
> ... Now here is where I can help you. See:
> 
>   http://eyegene.ophthy.med.umich.edu/unicode/fontguide/
> 
> ... for a complete selection of fonts for almost every script encoded in Unicode,
> including of course Arabic and Hebrew, for use on Open Source operating systems.
> 
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Gaurav
> >
> > PS: I sent this mail to gtk-app-devel-list gnome org earlier, but I
> > realized that probably the correct list is this one.
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