New Ubuntu Arabic Font

[Nicholas Skaggs]

Yaron, did David send you a reply? As I understand things, the Hebrew font
should be coming soon. I know you are keen to help test it, and we
definitely appreciate your willingness.

On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 3:50 AM, David Planella <
david.planella at canonical.com> wrote:

> 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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