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Arabic font support #929

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hosamaly opened this issue Aug 3, 2017 · 4 comments
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Arabic font support #929

hosamaly opened this issue Aug 3, 2017 · 4 comments

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@hosamaly
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hosamaly commented Aug 3, 2017

The current fonts (Helvetica Neue, Source Sans Pro, etc.) do not always contain the full set of Unicode characters, thus causing the browser to fall back to the system's "Sans Serif" font for rendering Arabic characters.

Although this works, it doesn't give the same feeling. For example, the fonts may look playful and cheerful in English but they look formal in Arabic.

The solution, in my opinion, is to be able to specify a different set of fonts based on the user's language. Here is an example of different Arabic fonts:
https://fonts.google.com/?subset=arabic

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hosamaly commented Aug 9, 2017

In the Google Fonts page, I think the font "Mada" is the one that somehow resembles how my kids would write. :)

@CelineBoudier
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Thanks for this @hosamaly, sounds good, @j4mesholland what is your font-loving opinion? :)

@mrniket
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mrniket commented Feb 12, 2019

Not a priority atm but I'll keep this issue open.

@faucomte97
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Deprioritised.

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