Which font for Arabian transcriptions (WinXP)?

Which font for Arabian transcriptions (WinXP)?

[Sven Bretfeld]

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Hi to all

A friend of mine needs a unicode font for Emacs on WinXP (for LaTeX
files) which can display characters needed for Arabian transcriptions.
For example:

ā "0101" 
ī "012B"
ū "016B"
ḏ "1E0F"
ḍ "1E0D"
ṯ "1E6F"
ṭ "1E6D"
ǧ "01E7"
ġ "0121"
ḫ "1E2B"

It's no problem to display these characters on my Emacs running on
Debian with the default-font adobe-courier. However, she is on
MS-WinXP and no font containing these characters seems to be available
for Emacs on that system. adobe-courier can be downloaded only for
quite an amount of money from the Adobe homepage (I really wonder why
it's available on a standard Debian system).

Does anybody have a tip about a free font containing these characters
which nicely plays together with Emacs? I have searched the web for
two hours without finding anything.

Thanks a lot

Sven

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Re: Which font for Arabian transcriptions (WinXP)?

[Peter Dyballa]

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Am 12.03.2008 um 20:34 schrieb Sven Bretfeld:

> ā "0101"
Lucida Sans Typewriter, DejaVu Sans Mono, FreeMono, Monospace  
Regular, Arial Unicode MS
> ī "012B"
Lucida Sans Typewriter, DejaVu Sans Mono, FreeMono, Monospace  
Regular, Arial Unicode MS
> ū "016B"
Lucida Sans Typewriter, DejaVu Sans Mono, FreeMono, Monospace  
Regular, Arial Unicode MS
> ḏ "1E0F"
	DejaVu Sans Mono, FreeMono, Monospace Regular, Arial Unicode MS
> ḍ "1E0D"
	DejaVu Sans Mono, FreeMono, Monospace Regular, Arial Unicode MS
> ṯ "1E6F"
	DejaVu Sans Mono, FreeMono, Monospace Regular, Arial Unicode MS
> ṭ "1E6D"
	DejaVu Sans Mono, FreeMono, Monospace Regular, Arial Unicode MS
> ǧ "01E7"
	DejaVu Sans Mono, FreeMono, Monospace Regular, Arial Unicode MS
> ġ "0121"
Lucida Sans Typewriter, DejaVu Sans Mono, FreeMono, Monospace  
Regular, Arial Unicode MS
> ḫ "1E2B"
	DejaVu Sans Mono, FreeMono, Monospace Regular, Arial Unicode MS

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Re: Which font for Arabian transcriptions (WinXP)?

[Sven Bretfeld]

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Hi Peter

Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> Am 12.03.2008 um 20:34 schrieb Sven Bretfeld:
>
>> ā "0101"
> Lucida Sans Typewriter, DejaVu Sans Mono, FreeMono, Monospace Regular,
> Arial Unicode MS
>> ī "012B"
> Lucida Sans Typewriter, DejaVu Sans Mono, FreeMono, Monospace Regular,
> Arial Unicode MS
>> ū "016B"
> Lucida Sans Typewriter, DejaVu Sans Mono, FreeMono, Monospace Regular,
> Arial Unicode MS
>> ḏ "1E0F"
> 	DejaVu Sans Mono, FreeMono, Monospace Regular, Arial Unicode MS
>> ḍ "1E0D"
> 	DejaVu Sans Mono, FreeMono, Monospace Regular, Arial Unicode MS
>> ṯ "1E6F"
> 	DejaVu Sans Mono, FreeMono, Monospace Regular, Arial Unicode MS
>> ṭ "1E6D"
> 	DejaVu Sans Mono, FreeMono, Monospace Regular, Arial Unicode MS
>> ǧ "01E7"
> 	DejaVu Sans Mono, FreeMono, Monospace Regular, Arial Unicode MS
>> ġ "0121"
> Lucida Sans Typewriter, DejaVu Sans Mono, FreeMono, Monospace Regular,
> Arial Unicode MS
>> ḫ "1E2B"
> 	DejaVu Sans Mono, FreeMono, Monospace Regular, Arial Unicode MS

Oh. Thanks. How did you find that out? 

Greetings

Sven

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Re: Which font for Arabian transcriptions (WinXP)?

[Peter Dyballa]

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Am 12.03.2008 um 23:50 schrieb Sven Bretfeld:

> How did you find that out?

UnicodeChecker 1.13. As with (slow and resources consuming)  
CharacterPalette it shows which fonts have the selected character.  
Have you visited: http://live.gnome.org/Gucharmap ?

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Mit friedvollen Grüßen

   Pete

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narrensicherer Dinge gerne den Fehler, das Genie des Volltrottels zu  
unterschätzen.



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Re: Which font for Arabian transcriptions (WinXP)?

[Sven Bretfeld]

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Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE> writes:

> Have you visited: http://live.gnome.org/Gucharmap ?

Thanks. That's a very useful application. Same on me, I already had it
installed, but I didn't know about it.

Greetings

Sven

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