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<b><a class="bz_bug_link
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title="NEW - Bundle and use open source Arabic fonts by default"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113532#c19">Comment # 19</a>
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title="NEW - Bundle and use open source Arabic fonts by default"
href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=113532">bug 113532</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:khaledhosny@eglug.org" title="Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>"> <span class="fn">Khaled Hosny</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to Yousuf Philips (jay) from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=113532#c18">comment #18</a>)
<span class="quote">> (In reply to Khaled Hosny from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=113532#c17">comment #17</a>)
> > I don’t recommend including Thabit, it is an abandoned font.
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> Though it is no longer updated, it is available in the debian repo and would
> be used in arabic documents and is the only available substitute for courier
> new's monospace font, as liberation mono doesnt have arabic characters.</span >
By using an abandoned font with not much user base, we are on our own when bugs
are found in the font (i.e. similar situation as we have now with the abandoned
Linux Libertine G fonts).</pre>
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