Help:Arabic
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- These are characters of the Arabic alphabet: أبجدية عربية. If instead you see a bunch of little boxes or question marks, then you need to install fonts with the appropriate characters
[edit] Text bidirectionality
The biggest problem for incorporating Arabic language text into the English language Wikipedia is that Arabic flows right-to-left while English flows left-to-right. Worse, the numerals shared by the two languages don't have as strong directionality as the letters, sometimes causing seemingly inexplicable glitches.
This can be fixed by using the Unicode left-to-right mark (LRM) U+200E at the end of the Arabic text to signal that the following English text should be read left to right.
The LRM can be placed using an HTML character identity of either the hexadecimal or decimal value: ‎ or ‎.
In some cases it might be possible to just rephrase or move the text around so that the more strongly-directioned text follows the Arabic text. This avoids the need of the LRM altogether.
[edit] Transliteration
One suggestion is to give the word written in Arabic the first time it appears in an article, followed immediately by one romanization, then using that romanization consistently through the rest of the article.
