console-setup: Arabic fonts are slim

[أحمد المحمودي]

Package: console-setup
Version: 1.16ubuntu5
Severity: normal

The arabic fonts are slim (making them not easy to read) compared to 
latin fonts in the same font file. For example I am using 
Uni1-VGA16.psf.gz font (according to what I understand from 
/etc/default/console-setup, which values are included in this report), I 
used a software called "nafe" (http://nafe.sf.net) to convert this font 
file to text, and I found that the thickness of latin fonts is 2 
(pixels?) while thickness of arabic fonts is 1 (pixel ?). Here I am 
including the output of nafe for 2 characters: the Latin b character & 
Arabic baa' character:

##################### Begin: Latin b character #################
++---098-0x62-'b'-
        
        
XXX     
 XX     
 XX     
 XXXX   
 XX XX  
 XX  XX 
 XX  XX 
 XX  XX 
 XX  XX 
 XXXXX  
        
        
        
        
##################### End: Latin b character #################

##################### Begin: Arabic baa' character #################
++---019-0x13-''-
        
        
        
        
        
 X      
X      X
X      X
 XXXXXX 
        
        
    X   
        
        
        
        
##################### End: Arabic baa' character #################


-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers gutsy-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'gutsy-updates'), (500, 'gutsy-security'), (500, 'gutsy-proposed'), (500, 'gutsy-backports'), (500, 'gutsy')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-14-generic (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages console-setup depends on:
ii  console-terminus          4.20-5.1       Fixed-width fonts for fast reading
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]     1.5.14ubuntu1  Debian configuration management sy
ii  initramfs-tools           0.85eubuntu20  tools for generating an initramfs
ii  perl                      5.8.8-7ubuntu3 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 
ii  xkb-data                  0.9-4ubuntu3   X Keyboard Extension (XKB) configu

Versions of packages console-setup recommends:
ii  console-tools       1:0.2.3dbs-65ubuntu5 Linux console and font utilities
ii  kbd-compat [kbd]    1:0.2.3dbs-65ubuntu5 Wrappers around console-tools for 

-- debconf information:
* console-setup/variant: U.S. English
  console-setup/modelcode: pc105
  console-setup/fontsize: 16
  console-setup/layoutcode: us
  console-setup/detect:
  console-setup/codesetcode: Uni1
  console-setup/dont_ask_layout:
* console-setup/altgr: No AltGr key
* console-setup/ttys: /dev/tty[1-6]
* console-setup/codeset: . Combined - Latin; Slavic Cyrillic; Hebrew; basic Arabic
  console-setup/toggle: No toggling
* console-setup/fontface: VGA
* console-setup/fontsize-text: 16
* console-setup/compose: No compose key
* console-setup/ask_detect: false
  console-setup/switch: No temporary switch
* console-setup/charmap: UTF-8
  console-setup/optionscode:
* console-setup/layout: U.S. English
  console-setup/detected:
  console-setup/variantcode:
* console-setup/model: Generic 105-key (Intl) PC
  console-setup/fontsize-fb: 16

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 أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy)
  Digital design engineer
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