Appendix F: Arabic Font Support
Outline
7199 RealPOSThermal Receipt Station supports several features of Arabic font, such as
the following:
• Contextual forms
• Word ligatures
• Reverse the Arabic strings
These features can be achieved based on the proportional font and they are available
according to the following conditions:
• Arabic Proportional font exist in DBCS font area.
• Asian Mode is disabled.
• Codepage 1256 is selected or Arabic characters (0600–06FF) are specified in Unicode
mode.
If Arabic proportional font does not exist in the DBCS font area, the above–mentioned
features are not available, and Codepage 1256 isolated characters are printed in fixed
pitch.
Contextual Forms
Arabic letters have contextual forms, depending on surrounding letters in the same
word: a typical–three letter word will start with a letter in initial form, followed by a
letter in medial form and, finally, by a letter in final form
Curly writing is a way to write a word with connection to all the characters in that
word. This feature is supported in contextual forms.
Word Ligatures
Arabic Presentation Forms-A has a few characters defined as word ligatures for terms
frequently used in formulaic expressions in Arabic. By way of example, the common
ampersand (&) represents the conjunctive word and. The ampersand symbol is a
ligature.
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