On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 10:00:55AM +0200, moayyad sadi wrote: > > ... Red Hat under GPL named "liberation" that simulated the MS fonts like Times > > new Roman, Arial, and Courier New)// > > you can download them from: https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/ > > no no no > liberation fonts from Red Hat does not provide Arabic > (or at least it did not appear to me so) Last time I checked, it hadn't any Arabic glyphs. > it's just pango magic > where pango substitute the missing glyphs from other similar fonts > > BTW > Serif (or times) means مذيل > Sans or Arial means غير مذير > I like that translation :) BTW, Arabic has no such thing as serifs, it is a Latin typography centric term. > and even in MS fonts there is no such thing for Arabic > they all have similar glyphs Even more, there handling of harakat is very poor, and mostly broken, for example, try to type harakat on lam-alif and you'll get something like لا. -- Khaled
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