http://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=30163
--- Comment #55 from Aric Stewart aric@codeweavers.com 2013-06-12 13:43:38 CDT --- (In reply to comment #52)
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Created attachment 44770 [details] New Tahoma font
Hello,
Yes looking at windows 7 tahoma.ttf, it contains Arabic characters which our tahoma font lacks.
I did some work this morning to include the Arabic glyphs and lookups from DejaVu (which is public domain and it appears much of our tahoma is already based on)
I cannot guarantee I did it all correctly. I tried. If it looks good I will submit this patch to get wine's tahoma to display arabic.
The shaping looks fine, but it lacks any mark anchors so Arabic combining marks are badly positioned. I may be able to work on the Arabic support if you can point me to the latest SFD file(s) of Wine’s Tahoma.
Correction: there are mark to mark anchors but no mark to base nor mark to ligature which are more important.
Ok I see my error. Unless you have already done work let me try to fix it.
Thanks! -aric