I CC'd Roozbeh but here's my report for the benefit of the silent lurkers: -------------- In Arabic, use of diacritics causes letters which should normally join to not join. (i.e. there is a small space between them although the correct shaping is maintained.) This has resulted in websites avoiding use of all diactics in Arabic. By diacritics, I mean the short vowels and other marks of orthography which are usually not written and are optional but are nevertheless desirable in some situations. This is true for all languages using Arabic-derived scripts. The URL I gave earlier (http://depts.washington.edu/yekruz/y1.htm) is actually Persian and here is a collection of screenshots of that same page viewed on many different browsers: http://depts.washington.edu/yekruz/bprobs.htm
This problem does not exist with Win/IE 5+, no matter which Arabic font one uses. The only way currently to solve this problem with Gecko browsers is to use special fonts which compensate for the Gecko bug. They are available here: http://www.bornaray.com/en_fonts.asp?fn=per_fonts&rfn=en_fonts&parent=fontslist&Grand=Main ---------------- -Connie _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
