Fix Arabic text in Safari and Mail with Office 2004

Aug 16, '04 10:25:00AM

Contributed by: bedouin

This is an issue that has been discussed in some detail on Apple's forums, but has not been mentioned on Microsoft's own support site for Office 2004 at all. Office 2004 installs its own versions of Arial and Times New Roman that do not support Arabic or other similar languages, such as Farsi and Urdu. After installing Office 2004, Arabic text in Safari and Mail will be disconnected.

To remedy this problem, delete Arial and Times New Roman from ~/Library/Fonts. This will allow Apple's originally installed versions of the fonts in /Library/Fonts to take precedence once again.

Microsoft really needs to address this, since it's an issue less-savvy users will not figure out on their own.

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