[Bug 1896397] Re: [UIFe] Tweak Arabic font

[Brian Murray]

Hello Gunnar, or anyone else affected,

Accepted language-selector into focal-proposed. The package will build
now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/language-
selector/0.204.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package.  See
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how
to enable and use -proposed.  Your feedback will aid us getting this
update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug,
mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been
performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-
focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you,
please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-
failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will
not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification .  Thank you in
advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s)
fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in
-proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

** Changed in: language-selector (Ubuntu Focal)
       Status: In Progress => Fix Committed

** Tags added: verification-needed verification-needed-focal

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Title:
  [UIFe] Tweak Arabic font

Status in language-selector package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in language-selector source package in Focal:
  Fix Committed

Bug description:
  [Impact]

  This is a follow-up of bug #1891733. After the new default font for
  Arabic had made it to focal, we got some additional feedback at
  <https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/14573>. After further discussion,
  trial and error, and multiple changes in groovy it has landed in a
  consensus to make these adjustments:

  * Rename the .conf file from 69- to 56-

  * Drop binding="strong"

  * Drop the specification for monospace, and with that fall back
    to DejaVu for Arabic monospace

  The significance of the changes, which motivates the proposed SRU, is
  made up of:

  1. Use DejaVu Sans Mono as default Arabic font for monospace
     instead of the previous non-mono font

  2. No longer conflicts with Kubuntu's custom font configuration

  [Test case]

  * Install the language-selector-{gnome,common} packages
    from focal-proposed.

  * Open the Language Support tool and install Arabic.

  * Open a terminal window, run the below commands and confirm
    that you get the same output:

    $ LC_CTYPE=ar_EG.UTF-8 fc-match
    NotoSansArabicUI-Regular.ttf: "Noto Sans Arabic UI" "Regular"
    $ LC_CTYPE=ar_EG.UTF-8 fc-match monospace
    DejaVuSansMono.ttf: "DejaVu Sans Mono" "Book"

  [Regression risk]

  For some users this will change the default monospace font for
  rendering Arabic. That's the point. :)

  The change will only affect users with an Arabic locale. The risk that
  other users would be affected by the change is low.

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