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