The core MS fonts such as Times New Roman, Arial, Courier, Tahoma are all of
them Unicode based and support Farsi. Also the earlier Traditional Arabic
Font, which is a better font, has support for Farsi/Persian. These work
great under Win2000/IE 5.5
Regards.
Abdul-Majid Bhurgri
>From: Darya Said-Akbari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "Unicode List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>CC: Unicode List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: Looking for Unicode based Persian Font
>Date: Mon, 6 Nov 2000 09:56:39 -0800 (GMT-0800)
>
>Sorry but it doesnt work. I get the message nesf.ttf is invalid, while
>trying
>to add this new font.
>I prefer the Netscape browser under NT and Linux. How about Nesf and
>Netscape?
>
>regards
>Darya Said-Akbari
>
>Roozbeh Pournader schrieb:
>
> > Take a look at Nesf, http://digilib.sharif.ac.ir/fonts.php.
> >
> > Tahoma from Microsoft is also aesthetically acceptable as a Persian
>font,
> > and is Unicode based (available with IE 5 or Windows 2000). There are
>also
> > the Parsa fonts, but they're not usable as good screen fonts, because
>they
> > lack the hinting. But they're acceptable for printing.
> >
> > Roozbeh.
> >
> > On Mon, 6 Nov 2000, Darya Said-Akbari wrote:
> >
> > > Salam to everybody,
> > >
> > > There is a jungle of Persian non Unicode-based fonts. Does anyone know
>a
> > > Persian Unicode-based true-type font. I am looking for such fonts
>under
> > > WinNT and Linux.
> > >
> > > Let me know about it.
> > >
> > > Best Regards,
> > > Darya Said-Akbari
> > >
> > >
>
