2012/2/15 maxwell <maxw...@umiacs.umd.edu>: > On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:17:07 +0100, Zdenek Wagner > <zdenek.wag...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> 2012/2/15 Jonathan Kew <jfkth...@googlemail.com>: >>> I'd recommend choosing a font that was explicitly designed for Persian, >>> which may have slightly different stylistic preferences than typical >>> Arabic usage. >>> >>> JK >>> >> It is also important to note that Persian makes use a a few characters >> that are not used in Arabic. Strictly Arabic font may not contain all >> needed characters. > > The SIL Scheherazade font covers all the characters in the Unicode Arabic > script block (not the presentation forms). Afaik, that includes all > Persian (Pashto, Urdu, Punjabi...) characters, in the Naskh style. There > are a few Arabic script chars used in African languages that it does not > yet cover. I think there's a Linux program that tells what languages a > font can be set for, but I can never remember what it's called (fc-list > doesn't seem to provide that info). > I have configured mi Firefox in Linux to use SIL Scheherazade for Arabic and Urdu pages are rendered correctly.
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