Re: Arabic Unicode fonts

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- David Starner <dstarner98 at aasaa dot ofe dot org> wrote:
>
> 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.

Yah, I can only imagine the sort of skeletons in that closet - I guess
we'll cross that bridge when we get to it; I wanna concentrate on
solidifying the issues noted earlier on the unix/linux front first :-)

 - Nadim

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