[Bug 30163] Arabic is not displayed correctly

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Wed Jun 12 10:28:49 CDT 2013


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

Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> changed:

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--- Comment #51 from Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> 2013-06-12 10:28:49 CDT ---
(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.

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