I provide here some programs which I think they will be useful for the arabic user:
Acon : It's function is to display arabic text from right to left, and process it to change the letter shape according to its position in the word.
You run it in the background, and it will monitor one or more virtual consoles. If it finds arabic letters, Acon will write them in the right direction. You must be root to run it.
It has two modes of operation:
- The first is the left to right
console, in which the default language is English. Use it when most
of the document is in english.
- The second is the Right to left
console, where the default language is Arabic. Use it when most of
the document is in arabic.
The source code : (don't use save link as) acon-1.0.5.tar.gz (40 kb)
The Debian installation by Chahine Hamila <hchahine@magic.fr>: acon_1-1_all.deb
By: Adil Alsaid <alsaid@bigfoot.com>
1) Download acon -- Compile it -- and Run it!! Easy :-)!
2)
Start acon in the background
3) Start Lynx
4) Go to Options (by
pressing the O letter)
5) In the "Characters Set Options box"
do the following
5.1 In the "Assumed document character set"
label choose either
ISO-8859-6 or windows-1256 depends on the site
you are visiting and what
characters is being used.
5.2 In the "Display Characters set"
choose
Arabic-(ISO-8859-6)
5.3 Choose accept configurations and you are ready to
browse
Arabic web sites using a text base browser from a Linux
box!!
You should select 'Full 8 bits output' and 'Full 8 bits input' in 'Options/Display bits' to be able to read/write arabic texts using mc.
Ahmed Abdel-Hamid Mohamed : ahmedam@mail.usa.com
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