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

[Behdad Esfahbod <behdad cs toronto edu>]

On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Gaurav Jain wrote:

> 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.

Now you are talking about something different:  terminal.  I
suggest you forget about typing Arabic in the terminal and go
back to the Gtx widgets.  It should work there.


behdad

> 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/
> >
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