Arabic-L:GEN:Arabic font on Firefox on mac

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Date: 22 Feb 2008
From:Michael Fishbein <fishbein at humnet.ucla.edu>
Subject:Arabic font on Firefox on mac

  just updated my copy of Firefox to 2.0.0.12 and went to the Al- 
Jazeera website. I could notice nothing unusual about the homepage, or  
the display of individual news stories, or even the display of printer  
friendly pages. Can you give the URL of one or more pages that have  
the problem?

Michael Fishbein, Lecturer in Arabic
Dept. of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures
366 Humanities Building, UCLA
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1511
tel. 310 206-2229

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Date: 22 Feb 2008
From:Dil Parkinson <dil at byu.edu>
Subject:Arabic font on Firefox on mac

Because of Michael's message above, I checked the Al-Jazeera site on a  
variety of Macs.  From my limited survey, I discovered that those Macs  
that had been updated to Leopard (10.5) have the Firefox font problem  
on the Al-Jazeera site and other Arabic sites, while Macs that are  
still on 10.4 (the one I tried is an old G5) show the sites perfectly.
Does this help anyone narrow down the problem?  It has something to do  
with Leopard, but not everything, since those very same sites work  
fine under Leopard with Safari.  Annoying.
dil

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