Kawkab Monospaced Arabic Font
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Kawkab Monospaced Arabic Font
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Re: Kawkab Monospaced Arabic Font
#2I can't read Arabic, but it's great that the internationalization of modern programming languages and editors allows for this.
Sure, statements are still in English in most languages, but it must feel great to be able to write comments in your own language!
Re: Kawkab Monospaced Arabic Font
#3There is a shortage in monospace fonts for Arabic script. Thank you so much for this! It's beautiful. Under what license this is published?
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#4I don't know Arabic but I'm very glad work like this is being done.
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#5Are there more basic string operations that need to be available for Arabic, a quick play with copy and paste produces all sorts of unusual effects I assume because of combining marks not being copied or being suitable in their new contexts.
I'd assume that the text is modified in units more complex than substrings and whitespace splitting?
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#6There is a shortage in monospace fonts for Arabic script. Thank you so much for this! It's beautiful. Under what license this is published?
It appears to be under the SIL Open Font License: http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?site_id=nrsi&id=...
Re: Kawkab Monospaced Arabic Font
#7Are there more basic string operations that need to be available for Arabic, a quick play with copy and paste produces all sorts of unusual effects I assume because of combining marks not being copied or being suitable in their new contexts. I'd assume that the text is modified in units more complex than substrings and whitespace splitting?
Letters in Arabic have different rendering depending on where they lie in the word; at the start, middle, end, or following/preceding certain characters.
This is the main problem you see sometimes in movies where they try to show something in Arabic and they get the rendering wrong. They probably get each letter on its own and try to construct the words like that, where the letters do not join and the whole thing looks like a mess.
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#8Beautiful! So much more readable than the other Arabic fonts I've seen in the past.
This is a little far fetched, but I think is a huge win for society. Better Arabic fonts = easier Arabic-only speakers to do work online = more opportunity for a huge portion of the world.
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#9Out of curiosity, what text editors work well with Arabic these days? A few years back, when Textmate was still very popular, I had to sometimes do i18n work. I had a coworker for a different department who was a native Arabic speaker, who would help me out, but together we still struggled. We'd put the cursor where an edit needed to be made, and changes would appear elsewhere. It took lots of trial-and-error to get the work done. Are things better these days?
Re: Kawkab Monospaced Arabic Font
#10The font's designer here- glad you guys like it!
I wasn't ready to put this up on HN because I didn't have an English page yet, but @specifictso has gone ahead and posted it.
The font is licensed under the SIL Open Font License as mentioned.
There's less than 10 Arabic monospaced typefaces out there and Kawkab Mono comes to fill a gap in this area. Might not be as highly demanded as Latin monospaced fonts, but still, it's great to have variety.
This is very much beta software as I haven't really tested the font outside of my personal setup. I've had no type design experience prior to this project. Would love to hear your thoughts and feedback.