Comment 30 for bug 1153188

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 4:30 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <email address hidden> wrote:
> Abdellah,
>
> Thanks for your report.
>
> You started the description in this bugreport with: "Default fonts in
> Ubuntu show ugly Urdu text." When you now say "no changes", do you mean
> that the Urdu text is still ugly?

Yes, exactly (seems like example: menu and that BBC file at bottom in
my previous attachment, it is a mono-space font)

> Also, let me try to summarize my understanding of this:
>
> Before the changes
> ------------------
> * When you install Urdu language support, you only get the "Nafees Web
> Naskh" font. Neither "Urdu Nastaliq Unicode" nor "Nafees Nastaleeq"
> is available on the disk. (They aren't available in the Ubuntu
> archive either, but only externally.)

Yes

> * The fontconfig file /etc/fonts/conf.avail/65-nonlatin.conf says "Urdu
> Nastaliq Unicode", which means that the font it states as the default
> is not available.

Yes

I wasn't knowing which package should take care of this. Also I was
thinking about replacing "Ubuntu" font like "Gnome Tweak Tool" do.
Where here it with fontconfig it seems to me like 'font priority
list', is it so? if yes, so the font mentioned here is just a
fallback. because there other Arabic script fonts at the top of it.

> After the changes
> -----------------
> * When you install Urdu language support, you get both "Nafees Web
> Naskh" and "Nafees Nastaleeq".

yes

> * The fontconfig file /etc/fonts/conf.avail/65-nonlatin.conf says
> "Nafees Nastaleeq", so unlike before the font it states as the
> default is available.

To me, No, because the desktop or system still using that ugly font
and not Nastaleeq.
That's why it seems to me like fallback font.

> Can you confirm that those descriptions of "before" respective "after"
> match the tests you made?
>

Please, let me know if I didn't understand you well.