Bug 35093

Summary:	Missing Some Glyphs for Uighur
Product:	DejaVu	Reporter:	eagle.burkut
Component:	Sans	Assignee:	Deja Vu bugs <dejavu-bugs>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	major
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Attachments:	missing-uighur-glyphs.patch

Description eagle.burkut 2011-03-07 12:24:12 UTC

Dear font developers,

Could you please add the following codepoints and glyphs to your DejaVu fonts for supporting Uighur language?

U+06C7 ARABIC LETTER U  (U+FBD7 U+FBD8)
U+06C8 ARABIC LETTER YU (U+FBDB U+FBDC)
U+06CB ARABIC LETTER VE (U+FBDE U+FBDF)
U+06D0 ARABIC LETTER E  (U+FBE4 U+FBE5 U+FBE6 U+FBE7)

Thank you.

Comment 1 eagle.burkut 2012-03-13 20:00:41 UTC

Hello there, is there anybody to respond to this bug?

Comment 2 Ben Laenen 2012-03-16 10:13:52 UTC

Well, I made the Arabic in DejaVu, but over time I wasn't really too happy with the glyphs, so I stopped work on it, and had the plan to redo them one day. But a busy life postpones these plans again and again, so that's why these glyphs aren't made yet.

Comment 3 eagle.burkut 2012-03-16 12:05:39 UTC

Hello, Ben,

Thanks for your reply. DejaVu Sans is the default GUI font on Ubuntu in Uyghur language, we were able to complete more than 95% translation string into Uyghur. (That is more than 200,000 sentences!) We really hoped to use Ubuntu in our language, unfortunately, the GUI font's lack of support Uyghur language gives us a problem and challenge.

Last year, one DejaVu font developer, MichaelJP, added the above 4 glyphs and their presentation forms to the font. Unfortunately, it seems that he can not commit it. I still have the copy and diff file.

If you do not have enough time to develop any glyphs, can you just simply add the already made glypths to the font and commit it? We really hope to solve this problem before Ubuntu 12.04 is released next month.

Thank you again.

Comment 4 Jeremy Bicha 2013-05-21 13:00:40 UTC

Created attachment 79617 [details] [review]
missing-uighur-glyphs.patch

Here's the patch Ubuntu has been using for a year and a half.

Comment 5 nocturnaldreamer 2013-09-15 21:02:33 UTC

(In reply to comment #4)
> Created attachment 79617 [details] [review] [review]
> missing-uighur-glyphs.patch
> 
> Here's the patch Ubuntu has been using for a year and a half.

Thanks for pointing this out, indeed the patch has been sent to the mailing list a while back, but seems to have been overlooked and forgotten.

Since it has been extensively tested and used downstream, I've gone ahead and committed it.

Sorry for the long delay!

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