Hi Nicholas, Thanks for the update, we have a whole community of guys waiting to test it. ☺
Waiting for your update! On Sep 22, 2015 8:19 PM, "Nicholas Skaggs" <nicholas.ska...@canonical.com> wrote: > Yaron, did David send you a reply? As I understand things, the Hebrew font > should be coming soon. I know you are keen to help test it, and we > definitely appreciate your willingness. > > On Fri, Aug 14, 2015 at 3:50 AM, David Planella < > david.plane...@canonical.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 3:05 PM, Yaron Shahrabani <sh.ya...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Hi David, >>> >> >> Hi Yaron, thanks for the feedback! >> >> >>> The pdf file itself contains some directionality mistakes, >>> >> >> Could you point to the actual mistakes? You say "some", so I assume it's >> not the whole text that is affected? >> >> >>> the Arabic text is aligned to the left but it's directionality is LTR. >>> >> >> This seems like a major mistake to me. Again, does this affect the whole >> text? >> >> >>> >>> Any info regarding the Hebrew version of the font? It was very long time >>> ago. >>> >> >> I'm not directly involved with font design, but I will find out and come >> back to you. >> >> Cheers, >> David. >> >> >>> >>> >>> >>> Yaron Shahrabani >>> >>> <DevOps - Hebrew translator> >>> >>> >>> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 1:24 PM, David Planella < >>> david.plane...@canonical.com> wrote: >>> >>>> Forwarding the message to test the new Arabic font to Ubuntu >>>> Translators: >>>> >>>> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>>> From: Nicholas Skaggs <nicholas.ska...@canonical.com> >>>> Date: Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 10:35 PM >>>> Subject: New Ubuntu Arabic Font >>>> To: da...@ubuntu.com, ahmedkhattabsh...@gmail.com, >>>> bilal.akhta...@gmail.com, o.boun...@gmail.com, ra...@ubuntu.com, >>>> me...@ubuntu.com, dani.be...@ubuntu.com, rooz...@roozbehonline.com, >>>> sadeqzab...@gmail.com >>>> Cc: Daniel Holbach <daniel.holb...@canonical.com>, Alan Pope < >>>> alan.p...@canonical.com>, David Planella <david.plane...@canonical.com> >>>> >>>> >>>> Hello everyone! The design team at Canonical have been working on a new >>>> Arabic font and we were hoping to get some feedback. I am contacting you >>>> because you were identified as someone who speaks Arabic or a related >>>> language that shares the Arabic Alphabet. If you are interested in helping >>>> out and testing this font, we would appreciate your help. I've placed the >>>> links below to the font, as well as an example rendition. >>>> >>>> http://people.canonical.com/~nskaggs/fonts/Ubuntu-R_w85_h85_2.ttf >>>> http://people.canonical.com/~nskaggs/fonts/Ubuntu_Arabic.pdf >>>> >>>> If you would install the font, and utilize it while using your system >>>> that would be wonderful. If not, simply disregard this mail :-) >>>> >>>> While testing, look for any weird rendering issues or incompatibilities >>>> with applications you might be using. If you are curious about how to >>>> install and change fonts in ubuntu, I would refer you to this AskUbuntu >>>> question, >>>> http://askubuntu.com/questions/19770/how-do-i-change-fonts-and-adjust-their-size >>>> . >>>> >>>> After installing and using the font for a few days, please email back >>>> and let us know your feedback and any issues you may have found while using >>>> the font. Thanks in advance for your help! Either way, we appreciate all >>>> you do for ubuntu. >>>> >>>> Nicholas >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> ubuntu-translators mailing list >>>> ubuntu-translators@lists.ubuntu.com >>>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-translators >>>> >>>> >>> >> >
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