Arabic display in Mathematica Mac OSX
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- Subject: [mg66622] Arabic display in Mathematica Mac OSX
- From: howardfink at gmail.com
- Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 03:02:18 -0400 (EDT)
- Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com
I'm running Mathematica 5.2 on the Mac OS Xs at the ITS Faculty Technology Center. I can create a string containing 16-bit Unicode charaters (in Arabic) like this: s = "\:0627\:0628\:0629" But when I tell Mathematica to render the string as part of a graphic, Show[Graphics[Text[s, {0, 0}]]] the Arabic characters appear as black rectangles. Who knows about this: Mathematica, PostScript, etc.? Thank you very much. I explored a little more, and the Font Book lists a Baghdad font, but it is not listed in the Mathematica Font menu. When I tried to add a font to the menu, Baghdad was not in the menu of fonts available. Howard Fink