better support for Arabic on drupal.org and groups.drupal.org

I have sent the following massage to Druapl support :

We have established a new group to support Druapl Arabic developer community.

http://groups.drupal.org/arabic

The main issue we are facing is posting and viewing posts in Arabic. In most browsers I checked including Chrome and FireFox (expect IE) the Arabic words will be displayed as letters without proper letter linking (which is part of arabic typography) resulting in unreadable text.

I have inspected the issue in page html source and found that main font used by drupal.org is:

"Bitstream Vera Sans",Verdana,Helvetica

The Only font that support Arabic from the above three is "Verdana" ; and since priority is giving to "Bitstream Vera Sans" font "Verdana" will not be used on windows and mac as they both have "Bitstream Vera Sans" pre installed.

My suggestion to resolve this issue is to allow posting inline style property "font-family" in drupal post editor. Where we can override default font family for tag.

Please take time to look inot this issue as we have a large number of arabic usesr that are willing to particepate but have weak english and need to be able to use arabic.

Support responded by creating the following issue, where all of us are required to try to come up with a solution.

The issue node :
http://drupal.org/node/695128

We need to help on this since it is OUR issue.

Sourour