Re: Hamza U+0621 (Anybody have a Linux box?)

["Mete Kural" <metek at touchtonecorp dot com>]

Hello Meor,

>I've not touch the font development for months, so it will take times
>for me to look at it again, then modify the font to make it work in
>those cases. However, I think the arabeyes-qr font (by Yousif) was
>design to work that way (from what I can tell the the GSUB table), but
>also failed under windows. Maybe you want to give it a try under Linux
>(I don't have a linux box atm), and it might work.

Unfortunately I don't have a linux box where I can test this either. Maybe someone else in the list might help. Anyone who has a Linux box with Pango installed and enabled for OpenType Arabic fonts? Meor, which distribution would they need to be able to use OpenType Arabic fonts in Linux?

Also, the arabeyes-qr font is a non-starter on Windows so I would not bother testing with it. I would suggest that you make the modification to your font to enable the usage of 0621 for both case 1 and case 2 and someone else on this list can help us test it on a Linux box. How does that sound?

Regards,
Mete

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Mete Kural
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