Comment 3 for bug 682317

Zayed: Arabic coverage for Ubuntu Regular and Bold should be arriving sometime during 2011. Designing a font takes a very long time and so it's not possible to do /everything/ at once. In the case of Arabic especially, there is lots of additional engineering required (most of the Arabic consonants have four variants, each of which must be magically selected in a particular circumstance).

I've tagged this bug against the (existing) "arabic support" milestone that's used for tracking progress, and so you should be able to follow that progress by clicking in the top right of this page. Of course when the Ubuntubeta Arabic arrives it will need large amounts of testing, in everyday situations, and I hope you'll be able (and willing!) to help make the assist with that and make the debugging and testing a success!