New Ubuntu Arabic Font

[Yaron Shahrabani]

Hi Nicholas,
Thanks for the update, we have a whole community of guys waiting to test
it. ☺

Waiting for your update!
On Sep 22, 2015 8:19 PM, "Nicholas Skaggs" <nicholas.skaggs at canonical.com>
wrote:

> 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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