RE: Tahoma font for Arabic on the Web is BAD!

From: Marco Cimarosti (marco.cimarosti@essetre.it)
Date: Wed Apr 17 2002 - 08:40:02 EDT


Shlomi Tal wrote:
> To those who publish Arabic content on the Web: avoid using
> Arabic Tahoma in
> Web pages as much as you can. The Simplified Arabic font is
> the best and
> clearest on the eye. Times New Roman for Arabic is less clear
> but still
> doesn't have the problem of underlining over dots.

I wonder about the correctness of some other common Windows fonts, such as
Courier New and Arial.

Are Arabic letters in thes fonts clear and correctly drawn? Do they also
have the problem with lower dots and underline?

Thanks.

_ Marco



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