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    Jul 13, 2010, 07:07 AM
    Arabic text can't be read?
    Hello, Some time I get some weird fonts,like thish - ãä åã ÇáÚãÇÑ.

    System: Win7-64bt.

    I already instald additional Arabic Language, and Kurdish, Persian.
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    Jul 24, 2010, 04:38 AM
    If you are importing or copying text from a source other than your own (webpage?), the conversion from source text font/charset/use of extended ASCII chars to destination might not quite be what the receiving end is expecting or is setup for. If for instance you're copying from text that uses extended chars and the encoding of destination is different from source then that messes it up. Does the source contain *curly* single or double quotation marks to set off a portion of text as opposed to the straight ones: ' ' or " " (open and closing marks are same char in both shown cases), or are there any other characters similar-looking to the shown chars, like the ditto or prime mark?
    Contrary to the straight ones that are in the basic ASCII set, the other ones are extended ASCII and that's where the discrepancies start in encoding (Unicode: UTF-8, Hebrew: Windows-1255 or Chinese Simplified: GBK; they will not match, not so much). Try to strip a piece of text that was erroneous from all extended chars and see if it gets across OK then. Also possible, that it's the other way around, and that the destination app default setting for quotations is 'change straight to curly', check that otherwise. Also, check the source encoding/charset, does it use UTF-8? Then it has to *go* to a destination set as UTF-8 basically. This means that if you copy from one language (say, English) to one with another encoding (Persian), you probably have to do an extra conversion in between, to first get it copied/saved into your app as much alike to the original as possible (same charset, same font or font that can function as substitute (registry has a basic list, destination app should show another font applicable) if font dropdown menu is empty, then you've got yourself one typeset short of a 1:1 conversion to boot), anyway, if you can find no way to manage that, try another app for (at least) the in-between conversion. Instead of Notepad use WordPad for instance, it has more formats to "save as.." to. Or if directly in Word, don't forget to check the settings on that end (set curly quotes *off*, encoding is same? etc.). If all that fails, one might try to find and replace the extended chars with basic ASCII chars, i.e. if the stripped test text of earlier did get through correctly. If not, it might be something completely different altogether ;-).

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