Name: bb33257 Date: 03/09/98

font.properties.ar has the following bugs :
   - dialog.1, dialoginput.1, serif.1, sansserif.1, monospaced.1
     all have the fontname "David".
     This is a Hebrew font and does not exist on Arabic Windows.

     I replaced David with the same name as the English font
     (Arial,Courier New, etc) on my Arabic NT machine and
     got Arabic characters.

   - All instances of
     fontcharset.dialog.1=sun.io.CharToByteCp1255
     should be changed to
     fontcharset.dialog.1=sun.io.CharToByteCp1256
     (1255 is the Hebrew Windows codepage, the correct value for
      Arabic is 1256)

   - The exclusion range info needs to be tuned. At a minimum,
     the space codepoint should be added to each line, i.e. :
     exclusion.dialog.0=0032,0100-ffff ... etc.

     When 0032 is not included, the space character acts like
     a LTR character even if it is between Arabic, for example :
     STORAGE: MY NAME
     is displayed as YM EMAN
     when 0032 is not in the exclusion range
     while the correct display would be EMAN YM.

     This might imply that either :
     - all neutral characters must be included in the exclusion
       range so they are not picked up from font.0 which is
       labelled as ANSI
       OR
     - ARABIC_CHARSET should be specified on font.0, rather
       than font.1

     I am not familiar enough with the effect of font.properties
     to determine which is better.

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