5/31/2023 0 Comments Italic arial fontI agree that it would be better to use synthetic-oblique characters from Arial instead of falling back to a different font family in this situation, but that's not currently how the font-matching algorithm operates. ![]() This doesn't happen with Traditional Arabic because there is no separate italic face at all in the Trad Arab family, and so the Regular font is used with a synthetic "oblique" style. So when you ask Firefox to display Arabic characters, we find the italic face of Arial (by matching the CSS font properties), but then we discover that it doesn't support the Arabic letters and so we fall back to a different font - either the next in the CSS font-family list, if provided, or a default from prefs. ![]() The reason is that Arial (and Times) has an Italic face that's a separate font from the Regular face, _but_ the italic face does not include Arabic characters. ![]() ![]() You'll see similar behavior with Times New Roman, I expect.
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