automatic font switching for non-Western languages

I've got a question about abiword and non-Western fonts. Looking through
the archives, I've seen a few questions about people who are having
trouble displaying characters in non-Western fonts, which are instead
appearing as little circles. The answer given seems to be to make sure
that a non-Western font is selected.

In programs other than Abiword, including OpenOffice and even gedit, if
you're using a normal Western font to write something in English, you
can use scim to switch in mid sentence to start writing in a non-western
language, and then easily switch back all without manually changing
fonts. There seems to be some configuration file somewhere that
automatically switches to a pre-selected non-Western font when you
switch with scim and start to type text in that language. In Abiword,
this doesn't seem to happen, and you have to either manually switch the
font once you change to a non-western language, or type the whole
document in using the non-Western font (which usually include the
standart ascii values in addition to the non-Western characters).

I am thinking that there must be some way to get this to work with
Abiword, since even gedit, mousepad, sticky notes, and every other
program that I know of allows it. I am thinking that some of the people
who have written to this list about non-Western fonts in fact have the
foreign fonts installed, but expected this automatic font-switching to
happen with abiword as it does with other programs.

Is there some kind of configuration file to edit that will allow this to
work?

Thanks
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Received on Wed May 23 08:56:02 2007