arabic language on FC7

[Dotan Cohen]

On 18/11/2007, Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net> wrote:
> On Sun, 18 Nov 2007 10:22:28 +0200
> Dotan Cohen <dotancohen at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > If you have a llicense to MS
> > Windows XP, you can copy the Tahoma font from that system into Fedora.
>
> Tahoma?  That's one of the "Microsoft Core Fonts for the Web".
>
> Those fonts are freely redistributable and can be downloaded here:
>
> http://corefonts.sourceforge.net/
>
> You don't need a license for Microsoft-anything to use that.

The downloadable font only includes the English glyphs. To get Arabic
glyphs (or in my case, the Hebrew glyphs) one must copy the font from
an XP system.

Dotan Cohen

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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