Re: Preferred font styles

Dear Lill,
e-Greetings,

For Persian (Farsi) content on the web, here comes a good CSS sample to style paragraphs in XHTML:

<style type="text/css">
    p.farsi {
        font-family: Tahoma, Nesf2, Nesf, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
        font-size: 11px;
        line-height: 1.7em;
        text-align: right;
        direction: rtl;
        unicode-bidi: embed;
    }
</style>
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- A sample XHTML code:
    <p class="farsi" dir="rtl">
        ...Your Persian content goes here...
    </p>
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- In HTML, you may use some thing like this:

    <font face="Tahoma, Nesf2, Nesf, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2" dir="rtl">
        ...Your Persian content goes here....
    </font>

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'Tahoma' is the most popular unicode font to publish Persian/Arabic content on the Web.
It is available on most platforms including Win9x/.../XP.

I highly recommend you to take a look at "Authoring Techniques for XHTML & HTML Internationalization 1.0" written by Richard Ishida on W3C:
http://www.w3.org/TR/i18n-html-tech/

For more info about Persian visit: http://www.farsiweb.info

Some Persian websites:
http://www.persianblog.com
http://www.itiran.com
http://www.bbcpersian.com


Warm regards,
AmirBehzad Eslami

P.S.
Please use the term "Persian" instead of "Farsi".

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Lill Therese Jacobsen 
  To: www-international@w3.org 
  Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 11:38 AM
  Subject: Preferred font styles


  Hi!

   

  Can anyone tell me which font styles are preferred for the following languages:

   

  Russian

  Urdu

  Arabic

  Persian/Farsi

  Kurdish/Sorani

   

  We are developing a multilingual website with dynamic content, and we don't always know which language being displayed. Is there a font that covers all the characters needed for these languages? Arial Unicode (too big for download.)? Any font styles that are standard in windows 98/2000/XP?

   

  Any help appreciated!

   

  Thanks!

   

  Lill Therese