{"id":613,"date":"2011-01-12T15:00:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T13:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/?p=613"},"modified":"2018-05-08T22:21:58","modified_gmt":"2018-05-08T20:21:58","slug":"arabic-web-fonts-on-ios-resolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/12\/arabic-web-fonts-on-ios-resolved\/","title":{"rendered":"Arabic Web Fonts on iOS [RESOLVED]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As per my previous post <a href=\"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/05\/css-arabic-custom-fonts-on-ios\/\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"color: #EF6596;\">here<\/span><\/a> about using custom Arabic web fonts for Safari on iOS, finally I had the solution, and guess what ?! it&#8217;s using TrueType fonts !!<\/p>\n<p>It seems like iOS has an issue with glyph lookup names for Arabic various ligatures when using custom TTF as <i>@font-face<\/i> in CSS, so I figured why not using my <a href=\"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/2010\/07\/12\/open-source-arabic-parsing-v1-5\/\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"color: #EF6596;\">parser<\/span><\/a> I used for Flash Player and ActionScript to manually perform that procedure for the iOS as well ?!, the funny thing that it worked nicely !!<\/p>\n<p>You can check <a href=\"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/ios\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #EF6596;\">this<\/span><\/a> example on your iPad ..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/arabic_ios.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-174 alignnone\" title=\"Arabic Web Fonts on iOS\" src=\"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/arabic_ios_500x340.png\" alt=\"Arabic Web Fonts on iOS\" height=\"340\" width=\"500\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Note:<\/b> your iPad must have iOS version 4.2 or higher ..<\/p>\n<p>If you do not have your fonts in TrueType format, I recommend using <a href=\"https:\/\/fontforge.sourceforge.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #EF6596;\">FontForge<\/span><\/a> to generate a working TTF version ..<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As per my previous post here about using custom Arabic web fonts for Safari on iOS, finally I had the solution, and guess what ?! it&#8217;s using TrueType fonts !! It seems like iOS has an issue with glyph lookup names for Arabic various ligatures when using custom TTF as @font-face in CSS, so I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,54],"tags":[34,55,56,82],"class_list":["post-613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-53","category-jan-2011","tag-arabic","tag-css","tag-ios","tag-javascript"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1236,"href":"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions\/1236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ixdc.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}