[Bug 30163] Arabic is not displayed correctly

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http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30163

--- Comment #55 from Aric Stewart <aric at codeweavers.com> 2013-06-12 13:43:38 CDT ---
(In reply to comment #52)
> (In reply to comment #51)
> > (In reply to comment #50)
> > > Created attachment 44770 [details]
> > > New Tahoma font
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hello,
> > > 
> > >  Yes looking at windows 7 tahoma.ttf, it contains Arabic characters which our
> > > tahoma font lacks.
> > > 
> > > I did some work this morning to include the Arabic glyphs and lookups from
> > > DejaVu (which is public domain and it appears much of our tahoma is already
> > > based on)
> > > 
> > > I cannot guarantee I did it all correctly. I tried. If it looks good I will
> > > submit this patch to get wine's tahoma to display arabic.
> > 
> > The shaping looks fine, but it lacks any mark anchors so Arabic combining marks
> > are badly positioned. I may be able to work on the Arabic support if you can
> > point me to the latest SFD file(s) of Wine’s Tahoma.
> 
> Correction: there are mark to mark anchors but no mark to base nor mark to
> ligature which are more important.

Ok I see my error.  Unless you have already done work let me try to fix it.

Thanks!
-aric

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