Hi David, I have a copy of Windows that I bought a year or two ago, but never really used it, as I preferred to use Linux. Got it just in case I needed the license, I guess now I can put it to use. Me paying for the Windows copy should include the fonts, right? It's working now, and showing the fonts. Thanks a lot :-D Now all that I have left is to get the characters to attach, and I tried using the usp10.dll file from windows, but the characters are still detached. Something else I'm missing? Regards and thanks again for the help :-)>______________________________________________ >Subject: Re: [Wine] BiDi Support >Date: 31 Dec 2008, 01:28 AM >From: "Dotan Cohen" <dotancohen at gmail.com> >To: wine-users at winehq.org >______________________________________________ >>2008/12/31 vitamin <wineforum-user at winehq.org>: >> >> Ramaddan wrote: >>> The title in the title bar comes out correctly, however, whatever >content >>> the program might have comes out blank, nothing. >> >> >> Wine's fonts don't have Arabic glyphs (character shapes). You might want >to install some windows fonts into your system. >> > >I highly recommend that you take the Tahoma font from an Arabic >Windows box, which is a nice looking font in both languages. Simply >downloading Tahoma from the web won't work, only the Tahoma as >installed in an Arabic Windows computer will have the Arabic glyphs. > >-- >Dotan Cohen > >http://what-is-what.com >http://gibberish.co.il >----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send big files for free. Simple steps. No registration. Visit now http://www.nawelny.com
2008/12/31 Ramaddan <ramaddan at gawab.com>:> I have a copy of Windows that I bought a year or two ago, but never really > used it, as I preferred to use Linux. > > Got it just in case I needed the license, I guess now I can put it to use. > > Me paying for the Windows copy should include the fonts, right? >There was a discussion on that once, you can probably google it, but I think that the conclusion is that you can _use_ the fonts locally, but not redistribute them.> It's working now, and showing the fonts. Thanks a lot :-D >Great!> Now all that I have left is to get the characters to attach, and I tried > using the usp10.dll file from windows, but the characters are still > detached. > > Something else I'm missing? >I am not sure. Hebrew script is not attached like Arabic script is, so I am only familiar with the RTL and non-unicode support issues. Can you link to an Arabic-language program that I could test with? On second thought, it has been a long time since I've worked with Hebrew in Wine as I've found it _very_ problematic. I tried using MS Office a few weeks ago and it was unusable due to RTL issues.> Regards and thanks again for the help :-) >Gladly! -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il ?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-? ?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-??-?-? ?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-? ?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-? ?-?-?-?-?-?-?
Hi Dohan, Here is a random program to test: http://www.ar1ar.com/program/download.php?id=273 I use the following commands to get it working, in addition to the fonts (more than just Tahoma, not sure which other one) from a Windows system with Arabic locale: LANG=ar_SA.utf-8 wine program.exe The characters come up, but not attached. Thanks for the help. Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote on 31 Dec 2008, 03:56 AM: Subject: Re: wine-users Digest, Vol 41, Issue 117>2008/12/31 Ramaddan <ramaddan at gawab.com>: >> I have a copy of Windows that I bought a year or two ago, but never >really >> used it, as I preferred to use Linux. >> >> Got it just in case I needed the license, I guess now I can put it to >use. >> >> Me paying for the Windows copy should include the fonts, right? >> > >There was a discussion on that once, you can probably google it, but I >think that the conclusion is that you can _use_ the fonts locally, but >not redistribute them. > >> It's working now, and showing the fonts. Thanks a lot :-D >> > >Great! > >> Now all that I have left is to get the characters to attach, and I tried >> using the usp10.dll file from windows, but the characters are still >> detached. >> >> Something else I'm missing? >> > >I am not sure. Hebrew script is not attached like Arabic script is, so >I am only familiar with the RTL and non-unicode support issues. Can >you link to an Arabic-language program that I could test with? > >On second thought, it has been a long time since I've worked with >Hebrew in Wine as I've found it _very_ problematic. I tried using MS >Office a few weeks ago and it was unusable due to RTL issues. > >> Regards and thanks again for the help :-) >> > >Gladly! > >-- >Dotan Cohen > >http://what-is-what.com >http://gibberish.co.il > >??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-? -??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-?? > >??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-?????-??-?? > >??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-? -??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-?? > >??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-??-?? > >??-??-??-??-??-??-?? >----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Send big files for free. Simple steps. No registration. Visit now http://www.nawelny.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-users/attachments/20081231/6698d2b2/attachment.htm
2009/1/1 Ramaddan <ramaddan at gawab.com>:> Hi Dohan, > > Here is a random program to test: > http://www.ar1ar.com/program/download.php?id=273 >I cannot find the download link! My Arabic is terrible (I know the letters, but not many words). I tried looking for something that was phonetically similar to either "hered" or "horada" (download in Hebrew) or "download", but found none. Can you link to the exe directly?> I use the following commands to get it working, in addition to the fonts > (more than just Tahoma, not sure which other one) from a Windows system with > Arabic locale: > > LANG=ar_SA.utf-8 wine program.exe > > The characters come up, but not attached. >I see that you are posting from a non-UTF-8 system (that is why I have the alphabet in my sig, to catch this exactly!). You might want to configure your system for UTF-8 before going any further. In a terminal, please run the locale command and post it's output. Which version of Arabic do you use (ie, where are you from)?> Thanks for the help. >Happily! -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il ?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-? ?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-??-?-? ?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-? ?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-?-? ?-?-?-?-?-?-?