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Re:Why Arabic is Terrific by dmoney on Sunday August 21, 2011 @12:44PM (#2909537)
> For exmaple, here are some "words" consisting of a single letter repeated three times:

> ييي ععع ههه ككك للل

Which for me looks like (asciified):

> USUSUS 010101 UtUtUt UfUfUf UnUnUn

I'm guessing I'm missing a font or something? (Firefox 6)

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Re:Why Arabic is Terrific by amirhhz on Sunday August 21, 2011 @12:48PM (#2909550)
View -> Character Encoding -> Unicode

Interestingly Chrome auto-corrected this.

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Re:Why Arabic is Terrific by dmoney on Sunday August 21, 2011 @12:59PM (#2909583)
That worked, thanks.
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Re:Why Arabic is Terrific by cedsav on Sunday August 21, 2011 @12:52PM (#2909560)
Your browser probably auto-detects the encoding as Western (ISO-8959-1). Change it to Unicode (UTF-8) to see the Arabic characters.
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Re:Why Arabic is Terrific by greengarstudios on Sunday August 21, 2011 @12:55PM (#2909574)
What's your OS? Here's how it looks to me:

http://twitpic.com/69kqzg

Mac OS X 10.6.8 / Google Chrome 13.0.782.112

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Re:Why Arabic is Terrific by cedsav on Sunday August 21, 2011 @01:00PM (#2909589)
Firefox 6 seems to ignore the encoding declaration in the xml prolog. Setting a content-type meta tag should fix this (or setting the encoding in the http headers).

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/>

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Re:Why Arabic is Terrific by yuhong on Sunday August 21, 2011 @03:34PM (#2910021)
That is because text/html content is not actually parsed as XML.
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