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

[Gaurav Jain <gaurav anywhere gmail com>]

Thanks to Edward and Behdad for the detailed insights.  I was my
GtkEntry finally worked with arabic after following the steps
mentioned earlier.  I will definitely give "mlterm" a try sometime
later to see if makes things better (though that's not high priority
for me right now).

Thanks all for your help!
Gaurav

On 6/10/05, Edward H. Trager <ehtrager umich edu> wrote:
> On Thursday 2005.06.09 13:58:35 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> > 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.
> >
> 
> Just a little note I would like to add here: mlterm (http://mlterm.sourceforge.net)
> is the only terminal emulator I am aware of that seems to work somewhat OK for Arabic
> (for example, you can use the terminal version of vi or vim to edit a document containing
> Arabic.  As far as I can tell, one has to more or less stick with using the bitmap GNU unifont
> in order to maintain legibility in the terminal, but it does seem to work).
> It would be nice if Gnome's gterminal or KDE's konsole could handle
> Arabic and other complex-text-layout (CTL) scripts.  Have others had this wish too?
> I have a partial idea of what some of the issues are, but I'm sure my understanding of these
> issues is incomplete.
> 
>  - Ed Trager
>    Bioinformatics, Kellogg Eye Center
>    Univ. Michigan, Ann Arbor
> 
> 
> >
> > 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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