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 < [email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Yaron Shahrabani <[email protected]> > 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 < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Forwarding the message to test the new Arabic font to Ubuntu Translators: >>> >>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>> From: Nicholas Skaggs <[email protected]> >>> Date: Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 10:35 PM >>> Subject: New Ubuntu Arabic Font >>> To: [email protected], [email protected], >>> [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], >>> [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], >>> [email protected] >>> Cc: Daniel Holbach <[email protected]>, Alan Pope < >>> [email protected]>, David Planella <[email protected]> >>> >>> >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ubuntu-translators mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators >>> >>> >> >
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