[1 mod] Arabic: ambiguity between digits ۱ and ۲ in UbuntuArabicBetaF

[Masoud Abkenar]

If you have them together, like ۱۲ (12), it's easy to distinguish between them. But if there is just a ۱ (1) in a text, you can easily confuse it with a ۲ (2). Either remove the serif in ۱ (1) or add a curvature to the upper part of ۲ (2).

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Masoud: very good feedback, thank you. It's really appreciated.

Please could you post a screenshot from your particular system, to help understand about out whether it's an underlying problem in the design of the glyphs, or an artefact of the rendering at a particular size.

Could you post in the two magic debugging characters '' and '' into the line of text in question before taking the screenshot. These provide additional informational (they'll be less useful in this particular case, but it's good to have them for consistency).

[Masoud Abkenar (mabkenar)]

You're welcome!

This is UbuntuArabicBetaF size 44. I use OpenOffice 3.2 in Ubuntu 10.04.

[Paul Sladen (sladen)]

Agreed, in a technical font designed to be used in user-interfaces (with low numbers of pixels compared to print material) there probably needs to be a bit more differentiation.

[Masoud Abkenar (mabkenar)]

``Either remove the serif in ۱ (1) or add a curvature to the upper part of ۲ (2).''
Now I disagree with my own comment. The serif at top of ۱ should be removed anyway to solve the problem. Adding a curvature on top of ۲ is a different story (which I still support).