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Display Arabic correctly In Safari
Authored by: HandyMac on Oct 19, '06 05:47:54AM
Yes, OS X does not fully support OpenType, but that's not necessarily a bad thing. Once again we have a conflict between Apple's superior method of doing something and the de facto (i.e. Micro$oft) "standard". Apple's AAT technology for non-Western complex scripts (wherein fonts include everything necessary to form things like Arabic ligatures) gives developers and users complete control over adding such scripts to their computers, while OpenType only works if the OS (i.e. Windoze) includes features necessary for it to work. Thus Micro$oft decides whether your minority script is "worthy" of being used on your computer. Apple may well be persuaded eventually to join the herd, but it will be a loss for Mac users. See here for one story of how Apple's recent attempts to make OpenType work in OS X have torpedoed efforts of one developer to make a cross-platform system for one "minority" script that Micro$oft has not yet "blessed" (but that works fine in OS X).

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