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I guess this probably has to do with different arabic/persian dialects. Seems to me you’ve got to find out who will be the target audience your client is aiming at, and then find out what typeface is mostly used for these visitors. So i’d have the client get in touch with the translator.
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As far as there is huge gap between Persian vs Arabic languages this sounds to me it should be some kind of minor differences in writing script of the Arabic language, if im right then you would ask about the audience target ie: lebanese/syrian/iraqi/egeption/saudi or persian-gulf living small countries different dialects.
BTW i have been in Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and have seen minor writing script differences b/w saudi vs lebanese arabic language that ofcourse lead to different dialect of that particular reigion.
FYI: Arabic and Persian are not in the same track to be dialecticaly compared, Persian has 3 major dialects like tajik, afgan, fars. but they share the right to left habit of writing in common, therfore they seem to be the same.
I could make a bridge to you with my arabain classmates to get some idea about.
There were no other similar language forums so I picked my best guess ... thanks everyone for putting up with my ignorance! As far as web fonts go ... what might be the "arial" and "times" equivalents?
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No problem Ryan, use Arial with atleast 11px in size for normal texts format and Tahoma without size limit.
Arial ex: (size 11px)
سلام رايان
Tahoma ex:
سلام رايان
Arabs mostly prefer to use Arial as default but Persians do like Tahoma for normal texts and Arial for headings.
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MotSmart is right. If you can figure out the arabic template you can figure out the persian template all other things
are minor.
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