Re: [linuxiran] mini-howto [was:salam]

[Arash Zeini]

On Sunday 22 June 2003 13:25, Abbas Izad wrote:

> >Clearly, these should be splited, and the first part at least should be
> >translated to Farsi. As you mentioned I also don't see the need to
> >translate the second part as possible translators should know English !
>
> I agree! We don't have to move or change existing the guide but to put an
> additional "howto write Farsi in KDE" guide in Farsi on the site.
>
> I am almost done writing this howto. I have put some snapshots and have to
> wait
> until I zip the finished file to see how large it will become.
>
> One other issue, I personaly hate Arial Unicode M$ and find it very ugly.
> I am back using Mandrake 9.1 after I tried Gentoo for sometime. due to my
> low speed connection and Gentoo's need of constantly be connected, I am
> back to my "Linux for dummys" Mandrake. Anyway, there is a very good
> feature in Mandrake
> that alow you to import and convert your Windowz fonts if you dual boot
> your box with Windowz.
> I have not determind how these fonts, like sans, courier, arial, etc, works
> when you move
> your files to other systems. Anybody knows anything about this? Does the
> other system
> have to do this importing/converting as well to be able to show that file's
> contents?
>
> /Abbas

I do not understand what the special feature of this should be? You can 
install any True Type font on any GNU/Linux anyhow.

Just take them and install the via the font installer of KDE. They will all be 
avialble to your system and you can use them for rendering web sites as well 
as data entry.

But be aware that you will achieve good results for Farsi only if the fonts 
are based on Unicode and if they support Farsi, i.e. if they contain the 
glyphs.

Greetings,
Arash

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