Re: Arabic Unicode fonts

[David Starner <dstarner98 at aasaa dot ofe dot org>]

I don't believe this message went to unicode at unicode dot org dot  If you
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note.

On Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 02:25:23PM -0700, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> Yah, it certainly is - the good thing going for Arabic is the lack of
> legacy code and documents.  99.9% of the Arabic documents out there are
> Micro$oft which leaves us (non-standardization) linux/unix folk thinking
> of more straight-forward ways of doing things - thus the questions.

Incompatibilities are painful. Quite a number of problems have been
caused by the LF/CRLF difference between Windows and Unix. This will
mean that every file to go to or from Windows will need to be converted -
that sounds like something to avoid if possible.

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