Re: Mandrake's issues (was - distro project...)

[Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh at sharif dot edu>]

On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 01:03, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
> > > Particularly interesting and easy (no new form, just dots, strokes or
> > > a small tah (which glyph is already present) are:
> > > U0679, U067E, U0686, U0688, U0691, U0698, U06A9, U06AF, U06C7
> > > digits U06F0-U06F9 (only 4,5,6 differ from standard arabic ones)
> > > those need a bit more design: U06BA, U06CC, U06D2, U06D5
> > > with those 23 extra characters it would cover also Farsi and Urdu.
> 
> I think its more than the 23 characters Pablo mentions - you need to
> account for their variations as well (in presentation Form-A, I'm
> guessing).  In other words, look for the above glyph encodings in,
> 
>    http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0600.pdf
>    http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UFB50.pdf
> 
> What is required here is someone that is aware of the requirements
> that is able to read/modify/write font files - or at a min someone
> that can mail me the appropriate glyphs to include (all of them).
> The Khotot project has all its files on CVS, so it should be
> painless to do this given working examples out there to look at.
> 
> Any Farsi/Urdu knowledge on the list ?

I agree Nadim, there are about four glyphs required for each of those
missing characters, which makes the matter a little hard. Also, most of
the those fonts do not really look beautiful to a Persian or Urdu
reader.

BTW, we (FarsiWeb) are working on our Persian fonts, which we will
release soon, some as GPL, some with a license like Bitstream Vera.

roozbeh