[Bug 30163] Arabic is not displayed correctly

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

--- Comment #52 from Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> 2013-06-12 10:31:55 CDT ---
(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.

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