can i make my N800 read Arabic fonts . . . lets say in the browser ??
or as a file ?? you know a name of an mp3 or video name ??

and if i can do it ??

how would it be done ??

i have looked around i could not find any thing ??

I was thinking that someone could help me with this?

Is there no way to add fonts??

Or dose it take more than that ?

1. Run x-terminal
2. Execute command sudo gainroot to enable root access privilege.
3. Copy tahoma.ttf to /usr/share/fonts/tahoma.ttf
4. Execute command fc-cache –f to rebuild system font cache information.
5. Exit from x-terminal.
6. Reboot the device
7. Now opera and all applications should be able to display Arabic font maybe not correctly but at least you've something to read.

i got the arabic fonts backwards so it was un-usable as if i did not have it ??

any suggested font for that mater ?? maybe it was the font . . . ??

thanks for your help

Since you already have Arabic fonts, this should work.

Use this link as a start:
http://qamoose.arabeyes.org/

You simply need to focus the search text field, type your text in the pop-up WEB virtual keyboard (not the one built-in), then copy/paste it wherever you want.

Well, with a few modifications to the code, you can create a web-based universal keyboard to any device. Of course, tributes go the guys at arabeyes.org.

Now with the new version of the browser based on Mozilla, Arabic's displayed properly. You can even open office documents as Google-Docs from Gmail containing Arabic text.

Enjoy!

So is it just a matter of installing an appropriate font, then rebuilding the cache? I ask because I would like to read (and write) Thai.

m a r

Well, if you check out the code of the virtual keyboard at http://qamoose.arabeyes.org/, it permits your to use any UTF-8 based keyboard layout.

Actually, I have no idea on the rights related to the modification/alteration of their code, but, if it's open, it'll be a web based solution to all UTF-8 input layouts/languages.

sweet stuff

now i will go and try it with my new browser

when my device comes back from nokia

Hello
Thanks for your reply.
i tried to apply this but after typing sudo gainroot on x-terminal i got the following msg.
Enable RD mode if you want to break your device.
How can i do this please?

Thanks with best regards.

Afdo

Try simply http://browser-extras.garage.maemo.o...arabic.install
It worked for me on 2007HE on 770.