Re: [general] Fwd: Khotot - Arabic fonts

[Hamed Al-Suhli <hamed at e3rab dot com>]

Assalam Alikom all,

sorry to open this very old thread

During past few years more Arabic letter Muslims are using social
media FB, TW, chat.. etc, many requited special character that not
available at Unicode like رضي الله عنه
السلام عليكم
آمين
if we can't insert such spacial chars in Unicode, is it possible to
suggest codes for them to be used in special fonts dedicated for
social media?
I think there are some spaces we could use for such thing.

On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 1:06 AM, Sabine Emmy Eller
<s dot eller at voxhumanitatis dot org> wrote:
> Dear Khaled,
>
> thank you for your info. Ambaradan is a completely free project and the
> fonts are distributed together with the software, therefore only free fonts
> can be used. At this stage I would say our only possibility is to use
> Scheherazade by SIL.
>
> Today I finished the first step on our langauge list with a txt file where I
> will start to annotate modifications and notes. I would like to keep
> Arabeyes.org as reference point for Arabic scripts. I don't know if we
> really can be of help, but at least we can try to give some more visibility.
>
> Regards, Sabine
>
> I hope that sooner or later
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug dot org> wrote:
>>
>> Currently, Arabeyes fonts covers only basic Arabic code point (i.e.
>> Arabic language only, no Persian etc. nor special Quranic marks). I
>> wouldn't suggest Arabeyes fonts for any serious work, ironically I'm the
>> maintainer of it, the fonts are of poor quality and generally decorative
>> fonts not for running text. If you can afford buying commercial fonts,
>> I'd suggest one of Linotype fonts (Lotus is the standard font for books
>> nowadays, Yakout used to be the standard newspaper's font, and still
>> used by many newspapers). For free fonts, SIL's Scheherazade is a good
>> font, and covers virtually all languages written in Arabic script, but
>> it has some aesthetically poor aspects.
>>
>> We have some projects for high quality fonts for print, but still work
>> in progress and it is too early to say when it'll be ready.
>>
>> Regards,
>>  Khaled
>>
>
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