title: How can I view Arabic/Persian numbers in a HTML page with strict doctype?
body: <p>I have an HTML page that is right-to-left. When I don't use any doctype, my numbers are in Arabic/Persian, but when I use strict mode they turn to English.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Final//EN"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Before adding doctype:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/hSg8O.png" alt="Before adding doctype"></p>
  
  <p>After adding doctype:</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/RpEIX.png" alt="After adding doctype"></p>
  
  <p>also I added these meta tags to my page:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /&gt;
  &lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="fa" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So how can I view Arabic numbers in a page with strict doctype (in IE because Firefox doesn't show Arabic numbers anyway)?</p>