These are characters of the Arabic abjad: italic=no. If instead, you see a bunch of little boxes or question marks, then you need to install fonts with the appropriate characters
The best sound markup in most situations is Before a file can be used, it must be uploaded to either Wikipedia or the Wikimedia Commons sister project. Uploading to Commons is recommended as files can be used by other sister projects. Files being used under fair use provisions must be stored on Wikipedia. The markup is the same regardless of where it is uploaded.
The MediaWiki software allows use of a subset of HTML5 markup element or tags and their attribute for presentation formatting. Many HTML tags may also be included by equivalent wiki markup or templates which are simpler for most editors and less intrusive in the editing window. In normal practice, wiki markup or templates are preferred within articles, but HTML is quite useful for formatting within templates.
Watching pages allows any logged-in user to keep a list of "watched" pages and to generate a list of recent changes made to those pages (and their associated talk pages). In this way you can keep track of and react to what's happening to pages you have created or are otherwise interested in.
This help page explains how to create and edit lists on the English Wikipedia. There are three types of lists: ordered lists, unordered lists, and definition lists. In the following sections, various list types are used for different examples, but other list types will generally give corresponding results.
Wiki markup is the syntax and keywords used by the MediaWiki software to format a page. To learn how to see this markup and to save an edit, see: Editing.
