Re: Help: Arabic fonts for Turklangs

Geoff Horswood wrote at 2005-02-06 03:02:21 (-0500)
 > Hi!
 >
 > Does anyone know where I can lay my hands on any of the modified
 > Arabic (modified Farsi??) fonts that are used for writing Turkic
 > languages like Kazakh, Kyrghyz and Uighur in NW China?  Or a font
 > for the old Arabic script of Turkish from before the Ataturk
 > reforms?  I'm wondering about using an Arabic script for Franj.
 >
 > Cheers,
 >
 > Geoff

If it's simply a matter of being able to display Arabic script with
the extended characters used in those languages, that's easily done.
You just need a Unicode font that supports those characters in the
Arabic range.  If you actually want a font in an appropriate style for
e.g. Ottoman Turkish, that might take a little more searching (and I
don't know enough about Arabic calligraphy to help you).

Either way, a good place to start is

http://www.travelphrases.info/fonts.html

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