[Bug 1966113] Re: Times New Roman fails to render Arabic diacritics correctly

[Alexander Nilsson]

Thank you for your answer. Actually, I'm not a fan of Times New Roman
for rendering the Arabic script, but sometimes the default font is Times
New Roman on certain web pages. I'll test supplanting the current font
with a fresh one from Windows / MacOS and get back to you.

Either way, why isn't the package updated to include the latest version
of the font?

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[Bug 1966113] [NEW] Times New Roman fails to render Arabic diacritics correctly

[Alexander Nilsson]

Public bug reported:

Times New Roman does not render Arabic diacritics correctly when there
is a shadda followed by letter that has a diacritic. This is a bug both
when rendering the text in for example Firefox / Chrome and in
LibreOffice.

To test the bug, copy the following text into a text editor, for example
LibreOffice, and change the font to Times New Roman to see how the
diacritics change position.

اشعّةُ
قوّتِك


The text is, however, correctly rendered with Times New Roman on Windows and 
MacOS machines, but not on my Linux machine.

Please see the attached image for a comparison with a font that
correctly displays the diacritics.


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Description:Ubuntu 21.10
Release:21.10

ttf-mscorefonts-installer:
  Installed: 3.8ubuntu2
  Candidate: 3.8ubuntu2
  Version table:
 *** 3.8ubuntu2 500
500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish/multiverse amd64 Packages
500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu impish/multiverse i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

** Affects: msttcorefonts (Ubuntu)
 Importance: Undecided
 Status: New

** Attachment added: "times new roman problem.png"
   
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1966113/+attachment/5572273/+files/times%20new%20roman%20problem.png

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