Re: Fonts for distribution

[Nicolas Spalinger <nicolas spalinger sil org>]

> Hi,
> 
> are there any free fonts out there that are known to support the
> variants of Arabic script well? We have particular problems with Kurdish
> which has some diacritics not used in other languages. There are a lot
> of fonts for standard arabic script, but less for variants. I could not
> find any suitable font in Ubuntu, and I think this is an issure for
> GNOME also.
> 
> Maybe Roozbeh knows?
> 
> Regards,
> Erdal

Take a look at the Scheherazade and Lateef smart fonts By Jonathan Kew
and Bob Hallissy from SIL: http://scripts.sil.org/ArabicFonts

They're not free as in freedom yet, but will probably be released under
the OFL (http://scripts.sil.org/OFL) in the future.


-- 
Nicolas