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01-09-2004, 05:21 PM
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how to add arabic fonts in win98???
Hi I have win98 OS. I have already gone to ctrl pnl> keyboard>add (language) and arabic is not there on the list!
I have loaded the muliti language support from win 98 setup, but arabic isn't listed there only baltic, greek, european etc. Any help????
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01-09-2004, 05:53 PM
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I think this might be what you want : http://www.aramedia.com/win98faq.htm
If I'm right then there is a seperate edition for the Arabic, as for several other languages, so you'll have to dual boot and I think you may need a different keyboard as well. |
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01-09-2004, 11:56 PM
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is it that win98 is not so 'accepting'. I just set this same scenario up on a friends winXP Pro.
BTW I am not really caring if I can type things up in arabic! I would REALLY like to see my text in MSN Messenger show up instead of 'question marks'... peoples names that should be read in arabic.. coming out looking like: ????? ??? ?????? etc. Still need someones help pls! |
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01-10-2004, 02:58 PM
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Any Idea how I can simply add another language from to my keyboard layout?
thks |
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01-10-2004, 04:16 PM
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You can't, not in 98.
If you want the arabic you will need both another keyboard, dual for arabic/english and the arabic edition of 98. |
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01-10-2004, 08:55 PM
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so R U telling me that there is nothing I can do about those annoying ?????? ????'s???
Please don't say it is so! thks again |
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01-10-2004, 09:29 PM
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Yes that's what I'm telling you. Sorry.
98 has only 26 languages and arabic isn't one of them. That language, along with several others, has a seperate 98 version. I know the arabic/english keyboard is only around $40 but I'm not sure what you'd pay for the OS. My best suggestion is an arabic/english version of Office but, given what the price for Offiice is, I don't think that's going to save you much money. It's upgrade time ( and damn M$ for making this necessary. ). |
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01-11-2004, 07:15 AM
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when U are sayin' that upgrade time... would it suffice to upgrade to win 98SE? Or are U saying I have to move up to Win XP?.... If that B the case I guess I'll throw in the towel! I have only a PII 300mHz with a 384mb sdram... and the icing on the cake: 3.2gb HD, with about 612mb avail disk space.
If I can accomplish what I need to .. with win 98SE.. I will check that out. thks for your kind help |
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01-11-2004, 09:59 AM
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Since you're going looking please check out the arabic/english versions of 98.
As for your computer, you're right, it's minimum spec and would run XP slowly. |
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