#8221 HIGH 8.2.0 (: We need better Arabic fonts

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#8221: We need better Arabic fonts
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   Reporter:  khaled         |       Owner:  cscott                
       Type:  defect         |      Status:  new                   
   Priority:  high           |   Milestone:  8.2.0 (was Update.2)  
  Component:  distro         |     Version:  not specified         
 Resolution:                 |    Keywords:  polish:8.2.0 csafor8.2
Next_action:  test in build  |    Verified:  0                     
  Blockedby:                 |    Blocking:  6808                  
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Comment(by sayamindu):

 I noticed two serious issues wrt numerals in these fonts

 1. With the Mothanna font selected in Write, I get stars instead of digits
 2. With the Thabit font selected, I get Latin digits (1,2,3,4,5..)

 (2) happens in the mesh searchbar as well.

 Khaled, is this intentional ? Moreover, I notice that in the Mothanna font
 (I opened it with a font-editor), there are a lot of star symbols (which
 look like place-holders to me).

 Scott, I suggest that we keep the current fonts till Khaled replies on
 this. I'm not very familiar with Arabic, so I would prefer to remain
 conservative here, more so since we already ship Arabic fonts (though
 quite ugly).

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/8221#comment:15>
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