Unicode Arabic BDF font updated

From: Mark Leisher (mleisher@crl.nmsu.edu)
Date: Mon Oct 25 1999 - 13:34:35 EDT


Version 1.4 of the 24pt, proportional bitmap font for the X Window system is
now available. This version moves the Urdu digit 7 to the Private Use Area,
and for Unicode 3.0, adds three new letters, a couple of Sindhi marks, and the
non-spacing maddah and hamzah above and below.

This font currently includes 635 glyphs that are needed for rendering
all of the Arabic letters in Unicode 3.0 with minimal legibility. Any
improvements or additions welcomed.

For those of you looking for rendering info, the distribution does include a
file with information relating the glyphs to characters encoded in Unicode.

  [Web]
  http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/arabic24.html

  [Ftp]
  ftp://crl.nmsu.edu/CLR/multiling/unicode/fonts/arabic24-1.4.tar.gz
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Mark Leisher
Computing Research Lab The first virtue is to restrain the tongue;
New Mexico State University he approaches nearest to the gods who knows
Box 30001, Dept. 3CRL how to be silent, even though he is in the
Las Cruces, NM 88003 right. -- Cato the Younger (95-46 B.C.E)



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