These fonts only support Urdu. They expose a serious flaw in Unicode that letters like (choti) Heh, (farsi) Yeh and Kaf (Keheh!) are made disparate from their identical Arabic counterparts.
Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nadim Shaikli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Awais Hussain" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, August 04, 2004 5:59 AM Subject: Re: Nafees fonts > --- Awais Hussain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have you checked the Nafees Naskh fonts developed at > > http://www.crulp.org ? > > Awais, sorry for the delay in replying. A few comments. I downloaded > the two fonts that I thought I'd be interested in 'Nafees Naskh' and 'Nafees > Web Naskh' - I then tried both and neither fully worked for me (the shaping > wasn't all there (GSUB tables missing ??), so I'm not sure what the problem > is). I also noticed that the 2 fonts have different licenses. The 'Naskh' > is rather restrictive (note items 2,3,4) which renders it anything by useless > except for an end-user singular post-fact download while the 'Web Naskh' > is rather, oddly, liberal and acceptable. > > In any regard, I wanted to reply with this info and to also echo your > suggestion to Arabeyes' "general" mailing-list (in the future do please > post there). > > Thanks for your note. > > Salam. > > - Nadim > > > > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - 100MB free storage! > http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
