Arabic-L:GEN:Firefox & Arabic advice

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Date: 04 Aug 2006
From:regexer at GMAIL.COM
Subject:Firefox & Arabic advice

Rose,

I'm not sure I have enough information to adequately diagnose the  
problem
(your operating system; version of Firefox), but here are some things to
try:

--Upgrade to Firefox 1.5--it's what I'm using now and it opens Arabic  
pages
automatically (I'm using Windows XP, Service Pack 2)
--Check your Windows regional settings. Go to Start-->Settings-->Control
Panel-->Regional and Language Options. Under the 'Languages' tab,  
make sure
the box is checked for "Install files for complex script and right-to- 
left
languages (including Thai)." You might need your Windows installation  
disk.

It's been my experience that any operating system older that Windows  
2000
requires some prodding to handle Arabic, and I personally would not use
Windows 2000 without applying service pack 4.

Please feel free to email me personally if I can be of any help.

Best regards,
Ben Huyck


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2)
Date: 04 Aug 2006
From:andyr at COMP.LEEDS.AC.UK
Subject:Firefox & Arabic advice

Rose,

I'm not sure that I can help you fix Firefox, but what I can say is that
I've never had any problems viewing Arabic pages in Firefox. It seems
perfectly capable of auto-detecting the correct encoding and displaying
accordingly.

Is auto-detect set to 'Universal'? (View/Character Encoding/Auto Detect
menu.) Perhaps you've accidentally set it to 'Off' which may be causing
difficulties.

My guess therefore is that some options are not configured correctly for
you. That said, I didn't do anything special to enable Firefox to behave
properly, so perhaps there's a deeper issue at the OS level - perhaps
regarding fonts.

The only time I could forsee Firefox having difficulties is when a web
page doesn't specify its charset correctly. Test with different site.
For example, I know for certain that the al-Hayat site is encoded in
utf8 and displays perfectly (without intervention on my part.)

Andy

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3)
Date: 04 Aug 2006
From: medawar at PANIX.COM
Subject:Firefox & Arabic advice

Rose, please try the following:

Tools -> Options -> Content -> Fonts & Colors -> Advanced
-> Arabic (Windows 1256)

This works for me since most content is published with the Microsoft  
Arabic encoding.

bassem

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4)
Date: 04 Aug 2006
From:afraalmussawir at YAHOO.COM
Subject:Firefox & Arabic advice

on the firefox Tools menu select Options, then choose "Content" from
the tabs at the top of the Options screen. you will see a menu for
"Default Font" at the bottom of the screen; next to it click the
Advanced button. from there, the menu at the bottom allows you to
select you "Default Character Encoding." i've never chosen arabic ones
as my default so i am not 100% sure that this will entirely solve the
problem you described. also, there are different arabic codes to
select, so hopefully you will see your preferred one listed there.
best,
afra

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5)
Date: 04 Aug 2006
From:melsayess at SOCAL.RR.COM
Subject:Firefox & Arabic advice

Greetings,

I was able to type   ?????  ??????? on Firefox.
Good luck!
Mahmoud Elsayess

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