Using installed arabic fonts on Windows XP

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Published on 2010-04-02T23:11:57Z Indexed on 2010/04/02 23:23 UTC
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I recently installed This arabic font package (for the coolness!) and I want to try writing with it but they show up as BOXES in Word 2007.

Why? how can I make the glyphs show up properly?

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