anyone designed sites in ARABIC fonts?

Hi,

wondering if anyone can recommend CSS font-families for ARABIC font display?

or is it best to specify no font and let the user agent pick the best?

particularly interested in hearing from those who have successfully launched
AR lang sites..

thanks!

Bennie

Re: anyone designed sites in ARABIC fonts?

222 wrote :
> Hi,
>
> wondering if anyone can recommend CSS font-families for ARABIC font display?
>
> or is it best to specify no font and let the user agent pick the best?
>

The latter. Just let the user choose and select the font family he wants
or has for arabic or just use the generic "sans-serif" for the font.
Browsers have setting, preferences users can choose for

language < -- > font-family

> particularly interested in hearing from those who have successfully launched
> AR lang sites..

I have. Just make sure that language, charset encoding in the webpage
and that the server is properly configured to serve the selected
character set/encoding.

E.g.:








You may have to check
http://web-sniffer.net/
for the http header responses.

More on all this:

W3C internationalization

Introducing Character Sets and Encodings
http://www.w3.org/International/getting-started/characters

Language on the web
http://www.w3.org/International/getting-started/language

Internationalization Quick tips
http://www.w3.org/International/quicktips/

Gérard
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