Last change: Back to Noto Sans Arabic UI for sans-serif.

** Description changed:

+ [Impact]
+ 
  This is a follow-up of bug #1891733. After the new default font for
  Arabic had made it to focal, we got some additional feedback at
- <https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/14573>. There seems to be a consensus to
- make these adjustments:
+ <https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/14573>. After further discussion, trial
+ and error, and multiple changes in groovy it has landed in a consensus
+ to make these adjustments:
  
- * Replace "Noto Sans Arabic UI" with "Noto Naskh Arabic UI" as
-   default Arabic font for sans-serif
+ * Rename the .conf file from 69- to 56-
+ 
+ * Drop binding="strong"
  
  * Drop the specification for monospace, and with that fall back
    to DejaVu for Arabic monospace
+ 
+ The significance of the changes, which motivates the proposed SRU, is
+ made up of:
+ 
+ 1. Use DejaVu Sans Mono as default Arabic font for monospace
+    instead of the previous non-mono font
+ 
+ 2. No longer conflicts with Kubuntu's custom font configuration
+ 
+ [Test case]
+ 
+ * Install the language-selector-{gnome,common} packages
+   from focal-proposed.
+ 
+ * Open the Language Support tool and install Arabic.
+ 
+ * Open a terminal window, run the below commands and confirm
+   that you get the same output:
+ 
+   $ LC_CTYPE=ar_EG.UTF-8 fc-match
+   NotoSansArabicUI-Regular.ttf: "Noto Sans Arabic UI" "Regular"
+   $ LC_CTYPE=ar_EG.UTF-8 fc-match monospace
+   DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book"
+ 
+ [Regression risk]
+ 
+ For some users this will change the default monospace font for rendering
+ Arabic. That's the point. :)
+ 
+ The change will only affect users with an Arabic locale. The risk that
+ other users would be affected by the change is low.

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu)
       Status: Fix Released => Fix Committed

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu Focal)
       Status: Triaged => In Progress

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