Created attachment 537790 [details] patch to fix urdu orth file Description of problem: We have recently packaged Urdu fonts from http://www.crulp.org/software/localization.htm in Fedora. These fonts are actively used for creating content in Urdu language from 5+ years. fontconfig do not recognize them as complete font for urdu language due to missing characters U+0629 ARABIC LETTER TEH MARBUTA U+0647 ARABIC LETTER HEH I have got following response from upstream " Alternate codes are recommended for Urdu by Unicode standard itself (see the code-wise text explanation after the code chart at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0600.pdf for U+06C3 as an alternate to U+0629 and U+06BE (or U+06C1; depends on which Heh one is referring to) as an alternate to U+0647)." Page 5 In Arabic code U+0600 Unicode chart 6.0 gives U+06C3 "ARABIC LETTER TEH MARBUTA GOAL, Urdu" U+06BE "ARABIC LETTER HEH DOACHASHMEE, Urdu" So, U+06C3 is recommended by Unicode instead of U+0629 U+06BE is recommended by Unicode instead of U+0647 Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): fontconfig-2.8.0-4.fc16.x86_64 How reproducible: everytime Steps to Reproduce: 1. yum install nafees-* 2. fc-query /usr/share/fonts/nafees-naskh/Nafees\ Naskh\ v2.01.ttf 3. it gives lang: (s) Actual results: lang: (s) Expected results: lang: ur(s) Additional info: attached patch
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This bug part of Fedora 17 feature https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Additional_Indic_Langs
upstream fontconfig 2.9.0 release is available with this fix http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2012-March/003811.html
fontconfig-2.8.0-6.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17. https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/fontconfig-2.8.0-6.fc17
fontconfig-2.8.0-6.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.