Arabic-L:GEN:Arabic Unicode responses and further query

[Dilworth Parkinson]

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3) Subject:Arabic Unicode response
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Date:  25 Mar 2002
From:Dilworth Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject:Arabic Unicode further query

Thanks to all who answered the unicode font query (see below).  I was
obviously confused about what was and was not a unicode font under
Windows 2000 (I thought that Arial was unicode, but that Simplified and
Traditional Arabic and the Arabic under Times New Roman were old Windows
encoding).  The reason I thought this is that when you save as text
only, a message comes up asking what encoding you would like, and you
have to go through a process to get unicode, even when the font is one
of the above, rather than unicode just being the default.

I still feel like I'm missing something in my understanding of how
unicode works under Windows 2000.  Is there anyone who can explain how
it works in simple terms?
Thanks,
dil

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Date:  25 Mar 2002
From:Benjamin Huyck <ben at huyck.net>
Subject:Arabic Unicode response

I am a big fan of both "Times New Roman" and "Traditional Arabic," both
of which come standard with the Arabic features of Windows 2000.
Ben Huyck

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Date:  25 Mar 2002
From:Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:Arabic Unicode response

Simplified Arabic is a good choice.
The glyphs are clear, and the relative positioning of letters to dots to
diacritics is good.
Waheed

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4)
Date:  25 Mar 2002
From:Steve Reef <SteveR at glyphsys.com>
Subject:Arabic Unicode response

Dear Dil,

George Hallak forwarded your mail to me. You can look at the Glyph
Systems
web site, for samples of "off the shelf" Arabic fonts. Most of the fonts
are
available with Unicode encoding in TrueType Open (which is essentially
the
same as OpenType).

Boutros MB may be just what you're looking for. You can see a sample at
the
following web page:

http://www.glyphfonts.com/arabic.html

Our end-user license does not allow redistribution, which may be required
for your CAI application. In which case, we can discuss terms for
licensing.

Please let me know if you have any questions.
Regards,
Steve Reef

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5)
Date:  25 Mar 2002
From:zaborowb at georgetown.edu
Subject:Arabic Unicode response

Re font query of Mar 20, I suggest the "Simplified Arabic"
found in Arabic Windows ME.  It displays the text cleanly
and with clean vowelling.
Bethany

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