On 17/11/2007, waleed zedan <walleed222@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > salam > I do this steps and I can write Arabic , but the problem is the characters appear separated like this وليد Salam Waleed. On my system, the letters are joined as they should be. So I assume that you have a font issue. If you have a llicense to MS Windows XP, you can copy the Tahoma font from that system into Fedora. The Tahoma font looks great in English and Arabic, even at small fonts. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?