New Ubuntu Arabic Font

[David Planella]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Yaron Shahrabani <sh.yaron at gmail.com>
wrote:

> ​Hi David,
>

Hi Yaron, thanks for the feedback!


> The pdf file itself contains some directionality mistakes,
>

Could you point to the actual mistakes? You say "some", so I assume it's
not the whole text that is affected?


> the Arabic text is aligned to the left but it's directionality is LTR.
>

This seems like a major mistake to me. Again, does this affect the whole
text?


>
> Any info regarding the Hebrew version of the font? It was very long time
> ago.
>

I'm not directly involved with font design, but I will find out and come
back to you.

Cheers,
David.


>
> ​
>
> Yaron Shahrabani
>
> <DevOps - Hebrew translator>
>
>
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 1:24 PM, David Planella <
> david.planella at canonical.com> wrote:
>
>> Forwarding the message to test the new Arabic font to Ubuntu Translators:
>>
>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>> From: Nicholas Skaggs <nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com>
>> Date: Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 10:35 PM
>> Subject: New Ubuntu Arabic Font
>> To: daker at ubuntu.com, AhmedKhattabShams at gmail.com,
>> bilal.akhtar96 at gmail.com, o.bounaim at gmail.com, rafik at ubuntu.com,
>> mehdi at ubuntu.com, dani.behzi at ubuntu.com, roozbeh at roozbehonline.com,
>> sadeqzabihi at gmail.com
>> Cc: Daniel Holbach <daniel.holbach at canonical.com>, Alan Pope <
>> alan.pope at canonical.com>, David Planella <david.planella at canonical.com>
>>
>>
>> Hello everyone! The design team at Canonical have been working on a new
>> Arabic font and we were hoping to get some feedback. I am contacting you
>> because you were identified as someone who speaks Arabic or a related
>> language that shares the Arabic Alphabet. If you are interested in helping
>> out and testing this font, we would appreciate your help. I've placed the
>> links below to the font, as well as an example rendition.
>>
>> http://people.canonical.com/~nskaggs/fonts/Ubuntu-R_w85_h85_2.ttf
>> http://people.canonical.com/~nskaggs/fonts/Ubuntu_Arabic.pdf
>>
>> If you would install the font, and utilize it while using your system
>> that would be wonderful. If not, simply disregard this mail :-)
>>
>> While testing, look for any weird rendering issues or incompatibilities
>> with applications you might be using. If you are curious about how to
>> install and change fonts in ubuntu, I would refer you to this AskUbuntu
>> question,
>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/19770/how-do-i-change-fonts-and-adjust-their-size
>> .
>>
>> After installing and using the font for a few days, please email back and
>> let us know your feedback and any issues you may have found while using the
>> font. Thanks in advance for your help! Either way, we appreciate all you do
>> for ubuntu.
>>
>> Nicholas
>>
>>
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>>
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