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As a datapoint how subtle the differences might be, I read your article on a Macintosh OSx 10.4.10 with Safari (Version 3.0.3 (522.12.1)) and Firefox (2.0.0.7). Just limiting myself at the list of labels, Firefox couldn't display the Dvangari.

Firebox (2.0.0.7) on my FreeBSD box (6.2-STABLE) had problems with the Greek, it other symbols and couldn;t handle the Tamil scriptat all (displays the Unicode-points in small squares). I assume this has to do with the (lack of) proper font files on the machine.

even if you have a perfect setup there are still issues with right to left scripts (Arabic for instance) :

http://مثال.إختبار/عربي/

look at this URI. for me, it looks a bit awkward. it looks like :

http://path/example.test/

preserving the left to right directionality of the path (the slashes order), is essential. everybody seems to forget that a URI represents also a hierarchy, not just an identifier.

Thanks Kim Davies for this article but how about solutions?

I recently got this problem of disconneted arabic letters that were arranged from left to right. Probably after I installed firefox 2.0.0.12 en-us. The font problem was also present in MSIE.

Is it because of corrupted fonts? Will the problem be solved if some or all of the fonts were deleted from c:\windows\fonts then replaced with new ones?