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bug #34700: Arabic/Persian in FreeSerif: ending "Yeh" is annoying

Submitted by:  sina <sineau>
Submitted on:  Sun 30 Oct 2011 04:29:21 PM UTC  
 
Category: individual character(s)Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: glyph(s) uglyStatus: Fixed
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: Steve White <Stevan_White>
Open/Closed: ClosedRelease: 2010-09-19

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Wed 04 Apr 2012 06:16:45 PM UTC, comment #8:

They did.

In both Serif and Serif Bold. And oh... FreeMono too!

Actually that e letter is a big problem vertically. It is the single deepest letter in the whole range.

Steve White <Stevan_White>
Project AdministratorIn charge of this item.
Wed 04 Apr 2012 05:13:35 PM UTC, comment #7:

Great. Thank you :)

But please don't forget that other similar characters (like the Arabic ي) should get the same final form.

Masoud Pourmoosa <amp3030>
Wed 04 Apr 2012 05:10:26 PM UTC, comment #6:

Made the final Farsi yeh to be more like the Unicode sample.
See Farsi-yeh.png.
In SVN.

(file #25579)

Steve White <Stevan_White>
Project AdministratorIn charge of this item.
Wed 04 Apr 2012 02:27:45 PM UTC, comment #5:

Attached.

(file #25567, file #25568)

Masoud Pourmoosa <amp3030>
Wed 04 Apr 2012 02:17:02 PM UTC, comment #4:

Hi Masoud,

I will look into this again, although at the time, obviously I thought I had fixed it.

The web pages referred to don't seem to be enough for me to see the problem: mostly they just use fonts installed on my system.

Could you please provide images, showing what you see, and what you expect to see?

Steve White <Stevan_White>
Project AdministratorIn charge of this item.
Wed 04 Apr 2012 01:04:55 PM UTC, comment #3:

This problem is not yet fixed, up to revision 2195. Currently it is the most noticable problem in the font (in Arabic section, I mean).

Masoud Pourmoosa <amp3030>
Wed 09 Nov 2011 01:02:20 PM UTC, comment #2:

Hi,

I think we decided that the measures I took to turn off the "yeh" ligatures resolved this particular problem.

(Remaining: it seems there's a bug in Linux that causes no features to be enabled, if I restrict these ligatures just to Arabic.)

Steve White <Stevan_White>
Project AdministratorIn charge of this item.
Sun 30 Oct 2011 05:19:57 PM UTC, comment #1:

I'm aware of problems with 'yeh', but your description sounds as if you're referring to an earlier version of FreeSerif. The letter changed yesterday. Please look again.

Steve White <Stevan_White>
Project AdministratorIn charge of this item.
Sun 30 Oct 2011 04:29:21 PM UTC, original submission:

As we discussed earlier in bug 34190, I am going to submit some small bugs to improve readability of FreeFont for Arabic/Persian users.
Ending "Yeh" should look more like the isolated form with a connection in starting point. You can refer to https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Arabic_alphabet#Table_of_basic_letters to see what I mean (It's the last letter in the table).

Please note that this bug affects following letters: FEF0, FEF2, FBFD, FBE5.

Also thanks to Emmanuel Vallois for his definitive html page here: https://savannah.gnu.org/support/download.php?file_id=24213

sina <sineau>

 

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file #25579:  Farsi-yeh.png added by Stevan_White (33KiB - image/png)
file #25567:  Yeh_problem.odt added by amp3030 (10KiB - application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.text)
file #25568:  Yeh_problem.png added by amp3030 (28KiB - image/png)

 

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    Date Changed By Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced By
    Thu 03 May 2012 04:07:17 PM UTCStevan_WhiteStatusFix posted=>Fixed
      Open/ClosedOpen=>Closed
    Wed 04 Apr 2012 05:10:26 PM UTCStevan_WhiteAttached File-=>Added Farsi-yeh.png, #25579
    Wed 04 Apr 2012 02:27:45 PM UTCamp3030Attached File-=>Added Yeh_problem.odt, #25567
      Attached File-=>Added Yeh_problem.png, #25568
    Wed 09 Nov 2011 01:02:20 PM UTCStevan_WhiteStatusProceeding=>Fix posted
      Summaryin Arabic/Persian range of FreeSerif ending "Yeh" is annoying=>Arabic/Persian in FreeSerif: ending "Yeh" is annoying
    Sun 30 Oct 2011 05:19:57 PM UTCStevan_WhiteStatusNone=>Proceeding
      Assigned toNone=>Stevan_White
    Sun 30 Oct 2011 04:29:21 PM UTCsineauCarbon-Copy-=>Added sineau

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