Thanks Daniel for your care and quick response. To make everyone happy is impossible but I would try ;)
Ideally we need a font that supports the range 600-6FF to cover all the languages based on the Arabic alphabet (Arabic, Persian, Urdu, ...). kacst and arabeyes fonts covers only one language and almost all cover part of the range U+615 - U+066D so none of them is useful as a default as far as I understand. DejaVuSans contains alphabets for Arabic, Persian and Urdu. At least it contains characters: 615, 61B, 61F, 621 - 63A, 0640-0655, 660-66F, 679-687, 691, 698, 6A1, 6A4, 6A6, 6A9, 6AF, 6B1, 6BF, 6CC, 6F0, 6F9 which covers the main arabic characters and adds the four letters of the Persian alphabet and some Urdu characters too. It's missing some characters but it's the best option available now. To improve upon this situation this font should contain more of the unicode range like it's counterpart Arial Unicode MS. I would also propose that kacst and arabeyes fonts should get rid of the English characters in their fonts. There are mere replication of the same latin letters in all their fonts which is redundant (performance issues) and would prevent a fallback to another English font if they are chosen in webpages and text editors. If you accept this I would organize it with kacst to edit their fonts and Mohammed Elzubeir can do the same for arabeyes. still, the bug filed here has nothing to do with a default font. DejaVu Sans works but most of the other fonts don't. So we need this to be fixed so people who didn't like DejaVu for whatever reason could choose their own fonts. -- Arabic support severely broken https://launchpad.net/bugs/11753 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
