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Originally Posted by spmcc123  I reviewed various threads on displaying Arabic on the MacBook Pro (bought in Abu Dhabi) I don't need to type in Arabic, but I do need to accurately display Arabic text in Word files and websites. Am I correct:
1. Microsoft Office 2004 for Mac does not display Arabic fonts reliably, though Office for Windows does....? (There is no fix for this...)
2. To tweak Safari and other non-word applications, I need to delete the existing Arial and Times fonts in the User > Libray > Font directory...? (If I do, are these fonts no longer available for Word and other documents?)
3. Enable Arabic in System Preferences > International...? |
Let's put this issue straight… Arial and Times becomes available once you install Mac OSX, the two font versions we request you to remove are those weird couple added to your system when you install MS Office.
Safari, Text Edit, and some other Apple applications displays Arabic properly - out of the box - but once you install MS Office you need to manage additional incompatible Times and Arial fonts.
MS Word 2004 CAN'T display Arabic, Only Excel 2004 can with very limited capability. You may use alternative powerful Word-processing applications such as Mellel or Nisus.
As Explained elsewhere in this forum, adding Arabic language to your system is easy, just visit International Preferences and you should be able to at least type in Text Edit and also open and share Arabic Microsoft Word documents from Text Edit.