Farsi Support

[Josh Ockert]

On 5/26/05, Hossein Noori <hn.freebsd at runbox.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Does everybody know how to support farsi fonts? I need to read HTLM files in FreeBSD, but there are problems.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Hossein Noori
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The X server works with truetype fonts, so that's a place to start

Arial Unicode MS if you can find it is supposed to be good. Otherwise,
normal Arial supports ISO-8859-6 which is Arabic script... this is
what Farsi uses, no?

Otherwise, the SIL fonts are a good place to look
http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&cat_id=FontDownloads

Also, I've heard ClearlyU has good Unicode support
http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/cu.html

Good luck