Often it seems to stick with the original font, so the display doesn’t change at all. Confusingly, if you try to, it may display the new font name in the toolbar as though it has changed.īut what seems to happen is it instead selects an Arabic-capable font that is similar in appearance to the font you’re trying to change to, and uses that. In Microsoft Word though, generally you can’t change Arabic text to a font that can’t display it. If the chosen font doesn’t have the required Arabic character set, the program may display the text as blank boxes, pink squares or similar, or gibberish text. This has implications when clients seek to change the fonts in a finalized English to Arabic translation. Here we see Verdana can display Greek and Russian, but not Arabic. Only certain fonts can be used for English to Arabic translation. Without this the font can’t display Arabic text. Selecting the font name and clicking on the Subset arrow will reveal if the font includes the Arabic character subset – see graphic. One way to check this is to use the Insert Symbol function in Word.
There is a relatively limited number of English fonts that can correctly display Arabic text. Font display issues in Arabic translation files We discuss these briefly on our Arabic translation services page.ġ. – There are also a number of specific issues related to typesetting Arabic text, and that of other right to left languages, in graphic design programs. – This article focuses on display issues with English to Arabic translation, but is equally applicable to translation into other right to left languages – Farsi, Hebrew, Urdu, etc.
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