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hasanghaforian
Asked: 2016-09-21 06:22:11 +0800 CST

Is it possible to see Persian words by W3M?

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I use Ubuntu 14.0.4 and some times, use w3m and XTerm as browser. I saw EastAsianWidth.txt which seems contains Persian letters. So I expect w3m will show Persian words. Also this is Charset Settings of w3m:

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As you can see, value of display charset is Unicode (UTF-8). But I can not see Persian words. How I can solve this problem?

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    As it is shown in image which is described in question, w3m can show Farsi words, but I had to enable XTerm to show them. I found a way to do that here.

    1. Installing FriBiDi package which is a BiDi algorithm implementation for Hebrew and/or Arabic languages. This package contains the header files and static libraries for the FriBidi C library.

      sudo apt-get install libfribidi0 libfribidi-dev

    2. Download & install bicon package: https://launchpad.net/~behnam/+archive/ppa/+build/574785/+files/bicon_0.2.0-1ubuntu0~ppa4_i386.deb for 32 bit https://launchpad.net/~behnam/+archive/ppa/+build/574789/+files/bicon_0.2.0-1ubuntu0~ppa4_amd64.deb for amd-64 bit

    3. running this code in that, in each session:

      /usr/bin/bicon.bin

    4. Add the following line to the end of /usr/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop file (For automatically running bicon by running XTerm from Applications):

      Terminal=true
      Exec=/usr/bin/bicon.bin

    Also I use DejaVu Sans Mono as font which can show Farsi letters:

    xterm -fa 'DejaVu Sans Mono' -fs 20
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