UniLang

If you are writing Arabic text in the forum, then you can enclose this text in special tags which will render the text in a better and bigger font. It also takes automatic care of right-to-left markup.

The tag for arabic is ar:

Example with tags: السلام عليكم، أتكلم اللغة العربية

Example without tags: السلام عليكم، أتكلم اللغة العربية

Vocalised example with tags:كَتَبَ الْرَجُولُ الْكِتابَ

Vocalised example without tags: كَتَبَ الْرَجُولُ الْكِتابَ

In the post editor, you will find buttons for these tags.

Just noticed this when writing my previous post. Looks much better!
شُكْرًا جَزِيلاً!

(edit: when the Arabic text appeared in the first line, its top - including vocalization marks - was partially cut off. I'm using Firefox. Anything to do about it or just blame the browser? )

That would indeed be a local browser/font issue. Appearance can still differ considerably amongst different system, but generally font should be a lot better and bigger now.

What is the name of the font used with tags? I'd love to use it in my offline notes...

It looks better without tags on my system:

TeneReef wrote:It looks better without tags on my system:

http://i60.tinypic.com/15ri3rm.jpg

Both fonts look too modernistic for my taste. I prefer the Naskh typeface used in the Living Language: Ultimate Arabic textbook, which is my primary Arabic resource at the moment. The font has much smoother teeth.

Sorry, but I have a problem with the arabic fonts. I don't know how to post. Should I have my own arabic fonts on the computer, or are they anywhere available on the forum ?

Have you tried using the [ar][/ar] tag?

Ok, this is an attempt

But I see that it doesn't work, the (ar) tag is just to make the letters bigger

You need to have Arabic fonts on your computer, I'm quite sure. And type in Arabic ألعربية - if that looks like a bunch of squares or question marks then you don't have Arabic fonts installed...

Ok, thank you. I m going to check it

السلام عليكم يا حبيبي