Using Arabic fonts with the extension .otf

Question

I\'m working on a small project, where the client sent me a font that he wants me to use for the Arabic language. The file extension for the file is .otf

I embedded the

Answer 1

It seems that Arabic font embedding using the @font-face technique does not work at present, I have been trying to have an arabic font deliver on the fly but haven't been able to get it display on web page. Reason, I read somewhere, is that the @font-face does not support accessing the extended character base of fonts.

Answer 2

Try converting the font to TrueType (.ttf) and SVG (.svg), and then use TrueType for IE, and SVG for Safari and Chrome.

You can use FontForge for converting the fonts.

Answer 3

IE doesn't support OTF fonts.

http://webfonts.info/wiki/index.php?title=@font-face_support_in_Internet_Explorer