# Reading arabic texts on the internet

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reading-arabic-texts-on-the-internet/121516>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 30, 2002, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reading-arabic-texts-on-the-internet/121516 "2002-07-30T12:45:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reading-arabic-texts-on-the-internet/121516/1 "2002-07-30T12:45:31Z")

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How can I read arabic characters on the internet? I guess it must be pretty easy, like in loading some police somewhere or somesuch, but I’m clueless concerning this sort of things, so I don’t know at all how to proceed. Can someone help me?

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**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reading-arabic-texts-on-the-internet/121516/2 "2002-07-30T14:45:53Z")

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You can go to [http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/](http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/) and download Arabic Language Support for Internet Explorer. That will enable IE to display Arabic pages.

To Type using a westrn keyboard you can go to  
[http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/internet/whitepaper/whitepaper38.htm](http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/internet/whitepaper/whitepaper38.htm)  
and download Arabic Keyboard support over Non-Arabic platform

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**Author:** ![sailor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a587f6/32.png) [@sailor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sailor)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reading-arabic-texts-on-the-internet/121516/3 "2002-07-30T14:47:54Z")

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You can go to [http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/](http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com/) and download Arabic Language Support for Internet Explorer. That will enable IE to display Arabic pages. If you just go to a page in Arabic script Windows will display a box proposing to do the installation automatically.

To Type using a western keyboard you can go to  
[http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/internet/whitepaper/whitepaper38.htm](http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/internet/whitepaper/whitepaper38.htm)  
and download Arabic Keyboard support over Non-Arabic platform

More:  
[http://www.aljazeera.net/help/arabic-instr-e.htm](http://www.aljazeera.net/help/arabic-instr-e.htm)  
[http://www.bac.tn/arabic\_support/ie5.htm](http://www.bac.tn/arabic_support/ie5.htm)  
[Google “internet explorer” “arabic support”](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22internet+explorer%22+%22arabic+support%22)

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**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2002, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/reading-arabic-texts-on-the-internet/121516/4 "2002-07-30T16:47:11Z")

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Thank you a lot, sailor…