Language display problems with Arabic/Urdu/Pashto/Farsi

[Mehdi H.]

Dear Roland,

Install the msttcorefonts package and add your favorite fonts or Tahoma font
to your ~/.fonts folder... This should be a font problem...


On 9/22/05, Roland Harke <Roland.Harke at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hello :-)
>
> Using Hoary and its Firefox until recently we enjoyed reading BBC in
> the mentioned languages. After some update recently the characters
> partly are replaced by square boxes containing digits and letters. To
> me they look like UTF-8 codes. It sure makes reading difficult.
>
> I myself could just ignore it and wait until some more knowledgeable
> fix it. But then there's my wife; not willing to ignore what to her
> was a cherished fact and am being told to "fix it", full stop.
> I'd love to. Just don't know how to go about it.
>
> Anybody out there to help me with advice so Arabic again looks like it
> should without funny boxes ?
>
> Any help will be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Roland.Harke at gmx.de
>
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Yours Sincerely, Mehdi Hassanpour
http://ImPersian.com
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