[general] Fwd: Font Issues of Central Asia

[Youssef Chahibi <chahibi at gmail dot com>]

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From: Jose Silveiro <4jazma at gmail dot com>
Date: 2008/11/18
Subject: Font Issues of Central Asia
To: contact at arabeyes dot org


Greetings from Central Asia!

I am a linguist working in Kyrgyzstan.  Thank you for your excellent
work.  I would like to offer advice or input on making your fonts
function for the Arabic script variants of Kyrgyz, Kazakh and Uigher.
I don't have much experience making fonts, although I recently made
one based on an old Kyrgyz text for the Academy of Sciences here in
Bishkek.  But I do know the issues related to these alphabets.

I am particularly keen to see an adequate, publicly available font for
the Kyrgyz Arabic script, as even the ones available in Northwest
China are deficient (and no font that I know can properly render all
of it's letters).  I wrote a primer to help traders and linguists
master that alphabet, but had to modify an existing font in order to
properly display the text.

Jalil Nurbek

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