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The State of Arabic Webfonts — TORPEQU
►http://www.torpequ.org/blog/the_state_of_arabic_webfonts
I have to admit that I am a little disappointed with the outcome: It looks like there is no way to create a fully functional Arabic webfont (without the help of black magic as it seems to be practiced by the creators of Nimbus) as of today.
Même constat (et méga-énervé).
Je profite du topic Arabic Webfont pour évoquer le très bon travail de Titus Nemeth pour le site de la BBC !
Oui, merci Mathieu. Il se trouve justement que sur le site de la BBC (arabe et perse), la webfont arabe correctement sur mon Mac : les ligatures arabes se font bien. C’est d’ailleurs grâce à ce site que je savais que c’est faisable, puisqu’ils le font, mais que c’est documenté nulle part pour faire pareil (alors que faire une police pas-arabe, un upload chez FontSquirrel et c’est torché).
Je lis d’ailleurs :
More technical work and testing had to be done for Nassim to be displayed in your browser — webfonts are new, but Arabic webfonts were pretty much unheard of until now. Browser and cross-platform compatibility for anything more complex than ASCII proves to be still problematic. The problems we encountered range from the Apple OSX system that as of yet only partly, and insufficiently supports Arabic OpenType features, to Google’s Chrome browser that flatly rejects any fonts with elements that are fundamental for Arabic rendering or the Windows rendering engine that does not allow for Kerning between Arabic letters and punctuation marks. Unfortunately, the current situation does not allow for an equal user experience, and there are still a number of issues to be addressed. We hope that developers will soon catch-up with the demand for improved non-Latin typography on-line and off-line, and embrace the technical developments necessary for most non-Latin scripts.