Hi Mike, > Are we trying to remove overlapping unicode ranges ? No, the problem is that we have not found yet a font file working well with Persian (and possibly with Arabic too) > Are there pango bugs outstanding agianst arabic and pharsi ? Maybe, the missing "aleph" glyph could be a bug? we need to investigate more > Do you see the problems on the desktop with the x11 gdk ? If we think the missing (or half displayed to be more precise) glyph is a bug it could be a very good idea to test it the way you suggest: Attilio, could you help creating a minimal application displaying Farsi text? svn://svn.debian.org/svn/d-i/trunk/packages/po/fa.po contains the entire po file for level1; or you might pick some random strings here: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/spellcheck/level1/latest/nozip/fa_all.txt I created some iso images to help investigating the problem: all the images are based on the current "official" image [1] (thus using 2.0.9 libraries rather than 2.8.10) and contain only one font file at the same time to make sure we can isolate the problem (unicode range overlapping _could_ be a problem even if we can use Fran's script). * the "official" iso [1] contains "ae_AlMohanad.ttf" (from "ttf-arabeyes-udeb (1.1-4)") * [2] contains only "nazli.ttf" (from "ttf-farsiweb (0.4-2)") * [3] contains only "ae_tholoth.ttf" (from "ttf-arabeyes-udeb (1.1-4)") * [4] Contains the fonts taken from the "Free Persian Font" project [5] Looking at the "ttf-farsiweb" and "ttf-arabeyes-udeb" source packages I noticed there are a lot of fonts file: "ttf-farsiweb" -------------- ae_AlArabiya.ttf ae_AlBattar.ttf ae_AlHor.ttf ae_AlManzomah.ttf ae_AlMateen.ttf ae_AlMohanad.ttf ae_AlMothnna_bold.ttf ae_AlYermook.ttf ae_Arab.ttf ae_Cortoba.ttf ae_Dimnah.ttf ae_Electron.ttf ae_Furat.ttf ae_Granada.ttf ae_Graph.ttf ae_Hani.ttf ae_Haramain.ttf ae_Hor.ttf ae_Japan.ttf ae_Jet.ttf ae_Kayrawan.ttf ae_Khalid.ttf ae_Mashq_bold.ttf ae_Mashq.ttf ae_Metal.ttf ae_Nada.ttf ae_Nagham.ttf ae_Nice.ttf ae_Ostorah.ttf ae_Ouhod.ttf ae_Petra.ttf ae_Rasheeq_bold.ttf ae_Rehan.ttf ae_Salem.ttf ae_Shado.ttf ae_Sharjah.ttf ae_Sindibad.ttf ae_Tarablus.ttf ae_Tholoth.ttf ttf-farsiweb ------------ homa.ttf nazlib.ttf nazli.ttf titr.ttf Any of this would be worth giving a go? I'd be happy to create an iso with a particular font file if you had any to suggest Ciao Davide [1] http://people.debian.org/~fjp/d-i/gtk-miniiso/daily/i386/mini.iso [2] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/g-i/mini_nazli.iso [3] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/g-i/mini_tholoth.iso [4] http://www.webalice.it/zinosat/g-i/mini_fpf.iso [5] http://fpf.sourceforge.net/cms/index.php
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