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

[Gaurav Jain <gaurav anywhere gmail com>]

Hello Behdad,

Thanks for your response.  I tried the setxkbmap command that you
mentioned, and it worked fine. I then switched the layout to arabic
using the "ALT + SHIFT" combination.  However, after switching layout,
I'm unable to type anything on the terminal itself.  Nothing is
visible, even though I have installed the arabic fonts (I mentioned
that in my previous mail on this group).  When I switch back to
english using "ALT + SHIFT", then I can see the english characters
correctly.

It seems that the font I have installed is not working.  Could you
please help me in this regard?

Thanks again,
Gaurav

On 6/9/05, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu> wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Gaurav Jain wrote:
> 
> > But I'm stuck at this point where I need an input method to enter the
> > arabic characters.  Could somebody help?
> 
> You need to set up an Arabic keyboard.  You can do it either
> using GNOME keyboard preferences tool, or using setxkbmap.  Red
> Hat Linux 9 is a bit too old.  Something like this would do it:
> 
>   setxkbmap -layout us,ar -option grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll
> 
> > (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).
> 
> Look around http://arabeyes.org/ and http://farsiweb.info/ for
> fonts.
> 
> > 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.
> 
> 
> --behdad
> http://behdad.org/
>