[Bug 1153188]

[Akiro]

Well, "Urdu Nastaliq Unicode" seems added by Mandriva guy at
c26344ecfc1d3b85671f5d948a10d5cc27c21c2f. you may need to talk to him
about this change perhaps.

FWIW this is correct metadata for Urdu Nastaliq Unicode:

Pattern has 19 elts (size 32)
        family: "Urdu Nastaliq Unicode"(s)
        familylang: "en"(s)
        style: "Regular"(s)
        stylelang: "en"(s)
        fullname: "Urdu Nastaliq Unicode"(s)
        fullnamelang: "en"(s)
        slant: 0(i)(s)
        weight: 80(i)(s)
        width: 100(i)(s)
        foundry: "unknown"(s)
        file: "/home/tagoh/Downloads/nastaliq_unicode.ttf"(s)
        index: 0(i)(s)
        outline: FcTrue(s)
        scalable: FcTrue(s)
        charset: 
        0000: 00000000 ffffffff ffffffff 7fffffff 00000000 00000000 00000000 00008000
        0006: 88001000 07fffd86 0013cbff 420107ff 01020140 04008200 00341080 00000000
        00fb: 00000000 00000000 03c00000 3c0003c0 c03c3f00 0000ffc0 01800000 f0000000
        00fc: 00000000 08800000 20000000 00000000 00010003 00000000 00000080 00000800
        00fd: 00000000 30000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
        00fe: 00000000 00000000 00000000 3fc30000 ffe7f807 ffffffff ffffffff 181867ff
(s)
        lang: fj|ho|ia|ie|io|nr|om|so|ss|st|sw|ts|uz|xh|zu|kj|kwm|ms|ng|rn|rw|sn|za(s)
        fontversion: 65536(i)(s)
        fontformat: "TrueType"(s)
        decorative: FcFalse(s)

and glyph coverage information is:
/home/tagoh/Downloads/nastaliq_unicode.ttf:0 Missing 5 glyph(s) to satisfy the coverage for ur language
  0x0623
  0x0624
  0x0626
  0x06be
  0x06c3

For Nafees Nastaleeq:
Pattern has 20 elts (size 32)
        family: "Nafees Nastaleeq"(s)
        familylang: "en"(s)
        style: "Regular"(s)
        stylelang: "en"(s)
        fullname: "Nafees"(s) "Nafees Nastaleeq"(s)
        fullnamelang: "en"(s) "en"(s)
        slant: 0(i)(s)
        weight: 80(i)(s)
        width: 100(i)(s)
        foundry: "unknown"(s)
        file: "/usr/share/fonts/nafees-nastaleeq/NafeesNastaleeq.ttf"(s)
        index: 0(i)(s)
        outline: FcTrue(s)
        scalable: FcTrue(s)
        charset: 
        0000: 00000000 ffffffbf f8000001 78000001 00000000 00000002 00000000 00000000
        0006: 883ff00f 07fffdde 01dff976 42011c00 01020140 44008200 001c100e 03ff0000
        0025: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00001000 00000000
        00fd: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 2c040000
        00fe: 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 08000000
(s)
        lang: ur|pa-pk|lah(s)
        fontversion: 65667(i)(s)
        capability: "otlayout:arab"(s)
        fontformat: "TrueType"(s)
        decorative: FcFalse(s)

The glyph coverage for Urdu looks like Nafees Nastaleeq is better than Urdu Nastaliq Unicode at least. though there seems a lot of fonts that support Urdu in the world, DajaVu, Kacst, Nafees, and PakType, and maybe more.
I can't figure out this is really better choice for Urdu and can't settle the kind of this issue so I'm always suggesting to have own recipes to give it a priority instead of changing the default font here because this is sort of subjective matter.

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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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