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#
# From: Id: README,v 1.2 1999/05/03 14:21:32 mleisher Exp $
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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
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  o  Changed CHARSET_REGISTRY to be ISO10646.

CHANGES FROM 1.1
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  o  Added FBE8 and FBE9 which are Uighur/Kazakh/Kirghiz positional variants
     of ALEF MAKSURA.

CHANGES FROM 1.0
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  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)