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[Khaled Hosny]

Not at all! I even designed a companion Latin font, so that readers of
Latin script can enjoy the same quality and polishes of FreeSerif that
Arabic script reader enjoy:

http://www.khaledhosny.org/files/tmp/freeserif.html

Please use both and don’t let Arabic readers have all the joy.

Regards,
Khaled

On Sat, Dec 07, 2013 at 01:28:31AM +0100, Dominik Wujastyk wrote:
> I'm sensing, I think, that you don't like that font, Khaled?
> 
> Dominik :-)
> 
> 
> 2013/12/5 Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org>:
> >
> 
> 
> > >> > Please, please, please, never ever use GNU free font for Arabic; it is
> > >> > the most hideous, crappy and useless un-Arabic font ever created, my
> > >> > blood boils every time I see it in use.
> > >> >
> > >> Could you summarize what is wrong and report it?
> > >
> > > All of it, the Arabic range is utter crap.
> > >
> > >> Steve White will
> > >> certainly fix it (unless it is better toreplace the whole Arabic
> > >> block).
> > >
> > > I did, and even offered to work on replacement, but the offer was turned
> > > down.
> > >
> > >> I see problems with dochachmee he, Urdu words as بھآرت and ؔٹھیک are
> > >> not displayed properly.
> > >
> > > There is no point in looking at the microlevel, the whole thing is
> > > worthless garbage and should be tossed in the nearest trash bin. Whoever
> > > designed it has absolutely no idea about Arabic and its design, I take
> > > it personally and find this garbage an insult to the Arabic script. Show
> > > a text typeset with it to an Urdu speaker and he is likely to vomit in
> > > disgust.
> > >
> >
> >

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