From: Raymond Mercier (rm459@cam.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Mar 07 2010 - 07:22:47 CST
From: "Julian Bradfield" <jcb+unicode@inf.ed.ac.uk>
> When I look at the page, using Firefox 3 on OpenSuse 11, I see
> letterforms that appear to match those in the table in Daniels and
> Bright.
> The font's awful (I've made no attempt to install any specific Arabic
> support, as I don't read Arabic), but the shapes appear to be correct.
>
> Screenshot at http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/jcb/a.gif
> tell me if I'm wrong!
Indeed this display is correct, unless you would look for 3 distinct forms
for rows 8-11.
I haven't tried this particular browser. Apart from IE I tried Google Chrome
and Sea Monkey, and none give the right display. Prilop has not said which
browser he uses, but at least all this shows that it is not a matter of
typeface, but of browser, and this example provides an interesting test for
the browsers.
Clearly for stability one needs a pdf.
Raymond Mercier
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