Comment 26 for bug 629622

yeah, just using it as a known example of very distinctive font with a limited set of glyphs so it is easy to see the behaviour of the desktop when it encounters a missing character. I am a member and I have the real font, but I am not sure I would be competent to spot missing characters when running the desktop in Arabic etc. so just a simple proof that font substitution works and the Arabic, Farsi and Urdu desktop users should just get the sans glyphs for those not implemented yet in the new ubuntu font. If I open up the text file I generated with all the missing glyphs and set the gedit font to ubuntu-beta it displays fine using the glyphs from sans. Basically I think the answers to the questions in #20 are "yes", and "yes".

It is still one heck of a user interface freeze exception, but I would love to see it get in and as the default.