Arabic support in Firefox..

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Tahoma font is killer Arabic font which people will be so happy with,
yes it's MS font, but you can find "open source" one at sf.net

On Sun, 2005-01-16 at 04:14 +0100, Danilo Piazzalunga wrote:
> Jesper Krogh wrote:
> > But unfortunately it looks like this:
> > http://krogh.cc/~jesper/arabic-wikipedia.org.png (Ubuntu)
> > On my own Debian installation it looks correct:
> > http://home.krogh.cc/~jesper/ar.wikipedia.org.png (Debian)
> > 
> > Any idea why the fonts look "pale"?
> 
> First idea: your Debian box has some fonts which support Arabic, while your
> Ubuntu box doesn't have any of these installed. Have a quick look with
> 
>   dpkg --get-selections | egrep '^ttf|^xfonts'
> 
> > I'd also like to hear from others experience with the the arabic font
> > support. Do you get something like the top one on yours Ubuntu
> > installation? (It could be this particular Ubuntu-installtions that's
> > broken).
> 
> On my box the page looks correct (or so I think...), likey thanks to the
> ttf-arabeyes font package, which is included by default in Hoary, but not
> available for Warty. Anyway, you should be able to install it after
> downloading the deb from
> 
>   http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/t/ttf-arabeyes/
> 
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