Comment 35 for bug 1153188

I downloaded ubuntu 13.04, ran it as virtual machine and accessed
facebook.com, tried to view text in urdu but the font is still not 'noori
nastaleeque'. images are attached as reference.

thank you,
Shabbir.

On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <email address hidden>wrote:

> Well, Shabbir, in comment #27 you asked for some time for testing - and
> you got it. ;-) Of course, I would have hoped for a report on you
> findings.
>
> Given Abdellah's comment #32, I still don't know what we should best do
> to achieve a sensible font setup for Urdu. Only adding Nafees Nastaleeq
> to the archive is reasonably not sufficient, if it's not accompanied
> with a font configuration that works.
>
> Shabbir, can you please test the idea in comment #31?
>
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> Title:
> Urdu with better support: Default Fonts, Kbd Layout
>
> Status in Fontconfig - Font Configuration Library:
> Confirmed
> Status in “fontconfig” package in Ubuntu:
> In Progress
> Status in “fonts-nafees” package in Ubuntu:
> In Progress
> Status in “fonts-nafees” package in Debian:
> New
>
> Bug description:
> Default fonts in Ubuntu show ugly Urdu text.
>
> It's better that language-selector sets "Nafees Regular" (Nafees Web
> in fonts-nafees package) as default font for all font families
> (SansSerif, Serif...except mono) used in Ubuntu.
>
> I would like to ask, if language-selector is able to set specific
> keyboard layout for Urdu for 1st time?
>
> Please Shabbir:
> Could you write here the best setting for Urdu Fonts (Using "Tweak
> Tool": Scale Factor, Hinting, Anitaliasing, Size)?
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