Arabic Fonts

[datakid]

I wanted to get the arabic font's happening for some clients of ours (http://www.computerbank.org.au/victoria/) who are sending some computers over to iraq. Knoppix's internationalisation is perfect for this, especially for the kludge hardware we use....anyway, I had this problem about 3 weeks ago with russian. Does anyone know where the arabic fonts are? I found the keyboard map, I found the name clearlyu arabic font listed in kword, but it only comes up with empty blocks (apart from the numerals, heh!)

help appreciated

[datakid]

the weird thing is that the font is listed in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc and it appears in the drop down font menu in kword, and it writes the empty blocks from right to left, but it wont write the bloody font. I should note that for some strange reason it also does not appear in kword->format->font (alt-ctrl-F).

[Stephen]

the weird thing is that the font is listed in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc and it appears in the drop down font menu in kword, and it writes the empty blocks from right to left, but it wont write the bloody font. I should note that for some strange reason it also does not appear in kword->format->font (alt-ctrl-F).
You may want to take a look at Arabeyes (http://www.arabeyes.org/) they have Arabbix a Knoppix derivative.