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Troubleshooting
This section contains solutions to some common problems you
may encounter while working on a computer that supports Arabic
or Persian.
I see odd characters that I can’t read in some of my file
and folder names.
The font your system is using for file and folder names does not
contain any Arabic characters. Arabic or Persian names can’t be
properly displayed unless your system uses a font that contains
Arabic characters. Choose Geeza (or Tehran for Persian) in your
Views control panel (see the section “Displaying Arabic or Persian
Filenames Correctly” in Chapter 2).
The Geeza font contains Arabic characters as well as the most
commonly used Roman characters. You can usually view Arabic
and Roman file and folder names correctly by setting the Font for
views to Geeza.
If you still see odd characters on your screen, read on.
Chapter 5
I changed my Views control panel to the Geeza or Tehran
font, but I still see odd characters in my Arabic
application program.
Your system may not recognize your Arabic program as Arabic.
Follow the instructions in Chapter 3 of this manual to register
your program as Arabic.
I changed my Views control panel to the Geeza font, and
now I can’t read some of my non-Arabic file and folder
names.
If you have file or folder names that contain non-English Roman
characters, such as accents or umlauts, they will not be correctly
displayed after you change the Views control panel to either the
Geeza or Tehran font. A few other characters, such as typographic
quotation marks and ellipses, will also not be correctly displayed.
This is because the Geeza and Tehran fonts do not have a
complete set of Roman characters, only the most commonly used
ones.
In the Views control panel, choose a font that will correctly
display your non-Arabic file and folder names. Then use non-
Arabic names for all your files and folders, even those that contain
Arabic.