#8221 HIGH Not Tri: We need better Arabic fonts

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#8221: We need better Arabic fonts
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 Reporter:  khaled  |         Owner:  mstone       
     Type:  defect  |        Status:  new          
 Priority:  high    |     Milestone:  Not Triaged  
Component:  distro  |       Version:  not specified
 Keywords:          |   Next_action:  never set    
 Verified:  0       |     Blockedby:               
 Blocking:  6808    |  
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 The current default Arabic font (PakType) is very ugly and unreadable that
 I think it should be removed. Other fonts doesn't fully cover Arabic
 script; KACST fonts only support Arabic and Nafees fonts only support
 Urdu. There is also no fixed width Arabic font.

 In short I think we should get ride of paktype-fonts and kacst-fonts and
 replace them with a more readable with wider coverage Arabic fonts.

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8221>
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