Windows has awesome collection of fonts to support different languages which are not yet supported by linux. For example urdu fonts are not supported by arch linux as default.
To get working with windows fonts on arch linux, follow the steps below
Mount your windows installation partition
Before mounting the ntfs drive on arch linux you need to install ntfs-3g package to get support for ntfs partitions on linux.
# pacman -S ntfs-3g
Create fonts directory and mount windows partition
For example a windows 10 is installed on /dev/sda2
# mkdir /usr/share/fonts/WindowsFonts # mkdir /win10 # mount -t ntfs-3g /dev/sda2 /win10
Copy windows fonts to linux
# cp /win10/Windows/Fonts/* /usr/share/fonts/WindowsFonts # chmod 755 /usr/share/fonts/WindowsFonts/*
Refresh fonts cache
# fc-cache
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