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This page's text, below, is best read with Netscape Navigator 2 and above, and probably with IE, (with Arabic fonts defined in Preferences.)(But go to English page directly if you don't want to experiment with Arabic text) Update: March 13, 2001: Internet Explorer with Arabic text enabled cannot read this page either. My page is ancient history. It can be able to be read using netscape on system 7.1 and the Arabic Language Kit.
You can use Netscape to download (free) Arabic fonts--and the whole Arabic system--from www.apple.com. You will also need Disk_Copy_6.1.3. a new Apple program for opening disk image downloads. Once you have "mounted" the Arabic Fonts disk on your desk top, double click on its icon just as if it were a floppy disk and drag the Arabic font suitcases (al-Qahira, Giza, Kufi, and Thuluth respectively) into your system folder and let the Mac put them in the fonts folder. Note(update March 13, 2001): this doesn't seem to work. Just putting the Arabic fonts in an English system and selecting those Arabic fonts in Netscapes preferences for User defined fonts doesn't read this page. You must also either be running Netscape with an Arabic system or using the Arabic Language Kit and running Netscape to view this page.