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AoA,
I had a discussion with Paul Nelson and he said that the following fonts in Windows 7 support 0600 and 0750 blocks completely, that covers Siraiki and various other languages:

Arabic Typesetting
Arial
Courier New
Microsoft Sans Serif
Microsoft Uighur
Sakkal Majella
Segoe UI
Tahoma
Times New Roman

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Lateef Sagar Shaikh




Mon Jun 8, 2009 12:59 pm

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Salam! Many a fonts, which display other Arabic-script characters very well, do not display the typical five characters of Saraiki. Would that all the fonts...
Gee Raza
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Jun 4, 2009
10:07 pm

AoA, You can use PakType fonts, they support Siraiki characters. Also please let me know if you find any issue with these fonts: ...
Lateef Sagar
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Jun 5, 2009
12:54 pm

Sain Lateef Sagar Shaikh, Thanks for reply. But I cannot tell you any specific issue with the fonts, you mentioned, as I dont have to type large scale text in...
Gee Raza
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Jun 5, 2009
5:42 pm

Dear Raza, Not all Arabic fonts support Saraiki characters as well. Most of the fonts are language-specific, so they only support characters required by that...
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Jun 6, 2009
6:14 am

Sain Abdul Rahim Nizamani, Thanks for your email, although it adds nothing to my information. Yes some fonts should have attraction to be adopted for some...
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Jun 6, 2009
12:46 pm

Dear Raza, AoA, I think with the passage of time at least Microsoft system fonts will support Siraiki and other new Arabic script characters of Unicode 5.1 and...
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Jun 6, 2009
12:42 pm

Sain Lateef Sagar Shaikh, WaAlaikum Salam, I am really happy to read your this reply. We cannot force font developers, of course, but we can really request...
Gee Raza
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Jun 6, 2009
12:57 pm

AoA, I had a discussion with Paul Nelson and he said that the following fonts in Windows 7 support 0600 and 0750 blocks completely, that covers Siraiki and...
Lateef Sagar
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Jun 8, 2009
12:59 pm

WaAlaikum Salam, that is nice effort. Best Regards- G. Raza ________________________________ From: Lateef Sagar <lateef_sagar@...> To:...
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