[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 113532] New: Bundle and use open source Arabic fonts by default

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113532

            Bug ID: 113532
           Summary: Bundle and use open source Arabic fonts by default
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 6.0.0.0.alpha1+ Master
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: LibreOffice
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: philipz85 at hotmail.com
                CC: khaledhosny at eglug.org
            Blocks: 103080, 112810

LibreOffice currently prefers to use proprietary arabic fonts[1] when available
rather than open source fonts and this doesn't improve the interoperability of
documents. So similar to LO bundling open source fonts like Liberation and
DejaVu fonts to ensure interoperability of latin-based documents, we should
bundle a few arabic fonts and default to use them.

I would like to recommend bundling

* Khaled's Amiri font (similar to Arabic Typesetting)
* KACSTOffice from Arabeyes Project (similar to Simplified Arabic)
* Scheherazade from SIL International (similar to Traditional Arabic)
* A few Kufi styled fonts from Arabeyes - Al Arabiya, Granada, and/or Mashq
* Tholoth from Arabeyes Project as a Thuluth styled font

For writer, we would default to either Amiri or KACSTOffice.
For calc, we could default to DejaVu Sans, as it is the closest sans-like
arabic font available similar to Tahoma.

[1]
https://opengrok.libreoffice.org/xref/core/officecfg/registry/data/org/openoffice/VCL.xcu#152


Referenced Bugs:

https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103080
[Bug 103080] A new default set of bundled fonts
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=112810
[Bug 112810] [META] Arabic language-specific RTL issues
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