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Re: Arabic issues in GNU Freefont
- To: "Mohammed Adnčne Trojette" <adn+deb at diwi dot org>
- Subject: Re: Arabic issues in GNU Freefont
- From: "Steve White" <stevan dot white at googlemail dot com>
- Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 11:10:09 -0000
- Cc: doc at arabeyes dot org
Hi,
Here is a catalog of differences between the arabeyes Arab font and
FreeSerif in the Arabic ranges.
Freesans missing
0640 tatweel (inserted to stretch characters)
064C dammatan (a combining form)
0652 sunkun (a combining form)
066d arabicfivepointedstar
from Presentation forms A
FE80 hamzaisolated
FE82 alefwithmaddaabovefinal
FE83 alefwithmaddaaboveisolated
FE84 alefwithhamzaabovefinal
FE85 wawwithhamzaaboveisolated
FE86 wawwithhamzaabovefinal
FE87 alefwithhamzabelowisolated
FE88 alefwithhamzabelowfinal
FE89 yehwithhamzaaboveisolated
FE8A yehwithhamzaabovefinal
FE8B yehwithhamzaaboveinitial
FE93 tehmarbutaisolated
FE94 tehmarbutafinal
FEC2 tahfinal
FEC3 tahinitial
FEC4 tahmedial
FEC6 zahfinal
FEC7 zahinitial
FEC8 zahmedial
FEF0 alefmaksurafinal
FEF1 yehisolated
FEF2 yehfinal
FEF3 yehinitial
FEF4 yehmedial
FEF5 lamwithalefmaddaaboveisolated
FEF6 lamwithalefmaddaabovefinal
FEF7 lamwithalefhamzaaboveisolated
FEF8 lamwithalefhamzaabovefinal
FEF9 lamwithalefhamzabelowisolated
FEFA lamwithalefhamzabelowfinal
from Presentation forms A
FD3E ornateleftparenthesis
FD3F ornaterightparenthesis
FDF2 allahisolated (done as ligature in FreeSerif)
FreeSerif has that ae_Arabic doesn't
067E peharabic (in Persian, Urdu)
0686 tcheharabic (in Persian, Urdu)
0698 jeharabic (in Persian, Urdu)
06AF gafarabic (in Persian, Urdu)
06CC [farsi yeh] (in Arabic, Persian, Urdu: like alef massura)
some punctuation in Presentation forms A
FE70 [fathatan isolated]
FE74 [kasratan isolated]
FE76 [fatha isolated]
FE78 [damma isolated]
FE7A [kasra isolated]
FE7C [shadda isolated]