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diff --git a/nx-X11/extras/fonts/arabic24/README b/nx-X11/extras/fonts/arabic24/README new file mode 100644 index 000000000..52717900a --- /dev/null +++ b/nx-X11/extras/fonts/arabic24/README @@ -0,0 +1,72 @@ +# +# From: Id: README,v 1.2 1999/05/03 14:21:32 mleisher Exp $ +# +# Copyright 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999 Computing Research Labs, +# New Mexico State University +# +# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a +# copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), +# to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation +# the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, +# and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the +# Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions: +# +# The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in +# all copies or substantial portions of the Software. +# +# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR +# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, +# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL +# THE COMPUTING RESEARCH LAB OR NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY BE LIABLE FOR ANY +# CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT +# OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR +# THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. +# + +This is a 100dpi, 24 point (approximately) font that is meant to act as +an example of what glyphs are needed to minimally support (almost) all +of the Arabic characters available in Unicode. + +The encoding of this font is the encoding of Arabic from Unicode 2.0 +with the addition of some contextual forms and some other convenient +glyphs that do not exist in Unicode. An additional file, "uniarab.txt", +has been provided to describe the encoding of the extra contextual +glyphs. + +Version: 1.3 + +CHANGES FROM 1.2 +---------------- + o Changed CHARSET_REGISTRY to be ISO10646. + +CHANGES FROM 1.1 +---------------- + + o Added FBE8 and FBE9 which are Uighur/Kazakh/Kirghiz positional variants + of ALEF MAKSURA. + +CHANGES FROM 1.0 +---------------- + + o Added the following missing glyph: + + E6B2 ARABIC LETTER U WITH HAMZA ABOVE FINAL FORM + + o Added the following glyphs for applications generating text for Omega: + + E6D0 ARABIC LIGATURE LAM SMALL V WITH ALEF ISOLATED FORM + E6D1 ARABIC LIGATURE LAM SMALL V WITH ALEF ISOLATED FORM + E6D2 ARABIC LIGATURE LAM DOT ABOVE WITH ALEF ISOLATED FORM + E6D3 ARABIC LIGATURE LAM DOT ABOVE WITH ALEF FINAL FORM + E6D4 ARABIC LIGATURE LAM THREE DOTS ABOVE WITH ALEF ISOLATED FORM + E6D5 ARABIC LIGATURE LAM THREE DOTS ABOVE WITH ALEF FINAL FORM + + o Added the following glyph simply for convenience: + + E6F4 EXTENDED URDU-INDIC DIGIT FOUR + + o Cleaned up and improved a number of glyphs, particularly some + Persian and Urdu glyphs. + +08 February 1999 +mleisher@crl.nmsu.edu (Mark Leisher) |