Re: Nafees fonts

["Thomas Milo" <t dot milo at chello dot nl>]

These fonts only support Urdu. They expose a serious flaw in Unicode that
letters like (choti) Heh, (farsi) Yeh and Kaf (Keheh!) are made disparate
from their identical Arabic counterparts.

Tom

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Nadim Shaikli" <shaikli at yahoo dot com>
To: "Awais Hussain" <ahussain at sonicwebmail dot com>
Cc: <general at arabeyes dot org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 5:59 AM
Subject: Re: Nafees fonts


> --- Awais Hussain <ahussain at sonicwebmail dot com> wrote:
> > Have you checked the Nafees Naskh fonts developed at
> > http://www.crulp.org ?
>
> Awais, sorry for the delay in replying.  A few comments.  I downloaded
> the two fonts that I thought I'd be interested in 'Nafees Naskh' and
'Nafees
> Web Naskh' - I then tried both and neither fully worked for me (the
shaping
> wasn't all there (GSUB tables missing ??), so I'm not sure what the
problem
> is).  I also noticed that the 2 fonts have different licenses.  The
'Naskh'
> is rather restrictive (note items 2,3,4) which renders it anything by
useless
> except for an end-user singular post-fact download while the 'Web Naskh'
> is rather, oddly, liberal and acceptable.
>
> In any regard, I wanted to reply with this info and to also echo your
> suggestion to Arabeyes' "general" mailing-list (in the future do please
> post there).
>
> Thanks for your note.
>
> Salam.
>
>  - Nadim
>
>
>
>
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