arabic font is getting Corrupted format

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meenu
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arabic font is getting Corrupted format

Post by meenu »

dears,

i am getting arabic words like as follows in my system (server 2003) "ÎÕÈ ÈÎÇ" .

same words getting correctly in another machine.

how can i solve this issue?

artro.ttf and artrbdo.ttf files i nstalled in font folder.


pls help me
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Re: arabic font is getting Corrupted format

Post by Yehuda »

You didn't say what program this is happening in. It looks as if it is a non-Unicode-compliant program, and it is translating the Arabic letters into ANSI codes (based on the Arabic code page 1256), but then displaying them according to the Latin 1 code page (1252).

Depending on your version of Windows (I don't know anything about Server 2003) you should be able to set the system language for non-Unicode programs (in my Vista it is on the Administrative tab of "Regional and Language"). That might help circumvent this issue.
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