A small group of Second Life residents have started a petition to include Arabic as one the supported fonts in the virtual world of Second Life. Here's the petition.
This seems like a fairly straightforward addition for Linden Lab to incorporate into Second Life, especially because the software is now so integrated into the web. Might be a fun project for the folks at Meedan to explore. In addition, the number of Arabic speakers I've seen in Second Life has increased markedly in the past months.
A cursory Google search turned up series of developer discussions on the Second Life support forums about the nuances and challenges of including Arabic in Second Life. Namely, that the script needs to go from right to left as opposed to left to right in English and other European languages. Looks like it will be a while for this one.
In the meantime, there are blogs about Second Life in Arabic ... Such as SLifeNews.
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I raised the bug report for this
way back in february last year some time http://jira.secondlife.com/browse/VWR-112
And also had a telephone conversation with Cory Ondrejka at the time with a request to fix it. Obviously it didn't get done. I suggest that you focus the petition on getting people to vote on that bug entry to get it high up in the Jira bug rankings so it gets assigned to a Linden developer.
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