-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Salam,
On Saturday 08 May 2004 11:44, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > On Thu, 2004-05-06 at 14:04, Munzir Taha wrote: > > Behdad, Nadim, yes these are Urdu characters and I too doesn't benefit at > > all from their inclusion since I don't know Urdu, but the point is Arabic > > and Farsi installation support can't be included in Mandrake and may be > > others easily if there is no unique font that contains Arabic/Farsi/Urdu > > glyphs especially the ones mentioned by Pablo of MandrakeLinux.com, > > Please tell you non-team ;) to consider these 7 characters. At least, > > explain this viewpoint to them. > > I understand the viewpoint. If this was Pashto or Kurdish or something > else, we would have agreed and done it. But the fonts lack the Urdu look > and feel (Nastaliq and all), and many Pakistanis can't even read them > easily, being used to Nastaliq. I would appreciate if you tell this to > Pablo, or anybody else who is blocking Arabic or Persian because of the > lack of a good font for Urdu. I agree with Roozbeh here. The finality (in distros) would be to have a font per language (read a font per group of languages that agree on the 'artistic' design ;-) So having a _single_ font for Arabic and Persian (and Urdu !) is simply out of the question. Either Arabic or Persian or Urdu people will have difficulties to read the font and thus they simply won't use the distro. However, this should not block us from adding Persian glyphs in Arabic fonts, Urdu glyphs in Persian fonts and vice versa :-) Unless you say you want to keep them missing to oblige distros to use different fonts ;-) BTW, I am not aware of distros blocking Arabic/Persian inclusion because of the fonts ?! I just remember recently Behdad was posting to the Fedora mailing list saying that the font used for Persian was an Urdu (?) one... Was that fixed ? If this is still the case, we should insist and tell the distro(s) people that the case of languages that use Arabic characters is totally different from case of European languages. Salam, - -- Youcef R. Rahal Arabeyes.org http://www.arabeyes.org/~rahal -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAnbvbHDRR6Cd0eSYRAhhaAKCyBywMt0pJm1UdwEZ5apU2zJjH5gCguOUT 7xBFD1KsRVn0uCJvfsX+pwY= =KdF7 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/developer
