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Old 4th July 2007, 08:29   #31 (permalink)
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So I take it Office does not want to change their policies towards right-to-left languages with ligatures (i.e. Arabic). That is a bummer.
Agreed. The rumor is, as far as I know, that they will fully support RTL in the upcoming Office 2008, but I don't think they've officially said anything about it, so we obviously don't know for sure.


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Old 22nd January 2008, 10:54   #32 (permalink)
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To fix this all you need to do is delete the offending fonts from your Mac (go to Library>Preferences>Fonts and simply trash Arial and Times New Roman. Your mac will then revert to using the original versions of those fonts that came with your system -- in other words, you'll still have access to the Arial font in Microsoft Word and other Office apps, but Safari will display Arabic correctly.
Amen to all of this. I learned this from a helpful chap named Knut on his Arabic Mac website and it works, it works, it works.
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