[plug] Finding a font

[Harry]

On Tue, 17 Feb 2004 09:28:04 +0800 James Devenish <devenish at guild.uwa.edu.au> wrote:

> In message <20040217011547.GA451 at mail.guild.uwa.edu.au>
> on Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 09:15:47AM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
> > /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/fonts.dir:arabic24.pcf.gz
> > -arabic-newspaper-medium-r-normal--32-246-100-100-p-137-iso10646-1
> 
> And if that's not available, Mozilla uses these:
> -mutt-clearlyu arabic extra-medium-r-normal--0-0-100-100-p-0-fontspecific-0
> -mutt-clearlyu arabic extra-medium-r-normal--17-120-100-100-p-103-fontspecific-0
> 
> If I remove newspaper and all of the 'mutt' fonts, then Mozilla is
> longer able to display Urdu.
> 
> Try: `xlsfonts |fgrep arabic` for starters, though it appears some other
> 'mutt' font also contains adequate characters.

Thanks for the good oil James. I'll tinker tonight.

I need to recover from spending my usual Tuesday at Computer Angels
with no airconditioning, Today was not comfortable :-(

The first two Pale Ales didn't even touch the sides now I'm
home tho' :-)

cu
Harry

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