[Bug 1153188] Re: Urdu with better support: Default Fonts, Kbd Layout

[Gunnar Hjalmarsson]

I don't know much about fonts either. ;-)  Anyway, I did some research.

"Urdu Nastaliq Unicode" seems to be the name of a specific font:
http://tabish.freeshell.org/u-font/

Unless that font is interesting, we know at least that "Urdu Nastaliq
Unicode" should be replaced in /etc/fonts/conf.avail/65-nonlatin.conf
with something else.

For me gnome-font-viewer finds both the Nafees fonts from the package in
my PPA; it's just that it thinks that both are named "Nafees" only (see
the nafees1.png attachment). If I click the one with the non-latin
characters and then click "Info", I get a dialog that confirms that it's
"Nafees Nastaleeq" (the nafees2.png attachment).

** Attachment added: "nafees1.png"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fonts-nafees/+bug/1153188/+attachment/3586946/+files/nafees1.png

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Title:
  Urdu with better support:  Default Fonts, Kbd Layout

Status in “fontconfig” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “fonts-nafees” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
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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