https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113532
Bug ID: 113532
Summary: Bundle and use open source Arabic fonts by default
Product: LibreOffice
Version: 6.0.0.0.alpha1+ Master
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: medium
Component: LibreOffice
Assignee: libreoffice-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
Reporter: philip...@hotmail.com
CC: khaledho...@eglug.org
Blocks: 103080, 112810
LibreOffice currently prefers to use proprietary arabic fonts[1] when available
rather than open source fonts and this doesn't improve the interoperability of
documents. So similar to LO bundling open source fonts like Liberation and
DejaVu fonts to ensure interoperability of latin-based documents, we should
bundle a few arabic fonts and default to use them.
I would like to recommend bundling
* Khaled's Amiri font (similar to Arabic Typesetting)
* KACSTOffice from Arabeyes Project (similar to Simplified Arabic)
* Scheherazade from SIL International (similar to Traditional Arabic)
* A few Kufi styled fonts from Arabeyes - Al Arabiya, Granada, and/or Mashq
* Tholoth from Arabeyes Project as a Thuluth styled font
For writer, we would default to either Amiri or KACSTOffice.
For calc, we could default to DejaVu Sans, as it is the closest sans-like
arabic font available similar to Tahoma.
[1]
https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/officecfg/registry/data/org/openoffice/VCL.xcu#152
Referenced Bugs:
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103080
[Bug 103080] A new default set of bundled fonts
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112810
[Bug 112810] [META] Arabic language-specific RTL issues
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