{"id":1423,"date":"2022-03-22T19:18:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T19:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/awami\/?page_id=1423"},"modified":"2025-10-17T14:30:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T14:30:24","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/awami\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"Version History"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>2025-Oct-17 (SIL WSTech team) Awami Nastaliq Version 3.400<\/h3>\n<h4>Improved<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Fixed issues with kerning and collisions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>New<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Added support for Malay hamza forms.<\/li>\n<li>Added 5 characters:\n<ul>\n<li>U+0682 ARABIC LETTER HAH WITH TWO DOTS VERTICAL ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+06A8 ARABIC LETTER QAF WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+0754 ARABIC LETTER BEH WITH TWO DOTS BELOW AND DOT ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+FD4F ARABIC LIGATURE RAHIMAHUM ALLAAH<\/li>\n<li>U+FDFF ARABIC LIGATURE AZZA WA JALL<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2024-Oct-09 (SIL WSTech team) Awami Nastaliq Version 3.300<\/h3>\n<h4>Improved<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Fixed issue with wasla collisions<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>New<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Added support for Kashmiri language<\/li>\n<li>Added support for Gojri language<\/li>\n<li>Added 15 characters:\n<ul>\n<li>U+08F7 ARABIC LEFT ARROWHEAD ABOVE (for Burushaski)<\/li>\n<li>U+FBC6 ARABIC LIGATURE RAHMATU ALLAAHI ALAYHIM (this character is not officially in Unicode,<br \/>\nit is in the pipeline for a future version of the Unicode Standard)<\/li>\n<li>U+FBC7 ARABIC LIGATURE RAHMATU ALLAAHI ALAYHIMAA (this character is not officially in Unicode,<br \/>\nit is in the pipeline for a future version of the Unicode Standard)<\/li>\n<li>U+FD40 ARABIC LIGATURE RAHIMAHU ALLAAH<\/li>\n<li>U+FD41 ARABIC LIGATURE RADI ALLAAHU ANH<\/li>\n<li>U+FD42 ARABIC LIGATURE RADI ALLAAHU ANHAA<\/li>\n<li>U+FD43 ARABIC LIGATURE RADI ALLAAHU ANHUM<\/li>\n<li>U+FD44 ARABIC LIGATURE RADI ALLAAHU ANHUMAA<\/li>\n<li>U+FD45 ARABIC LIGATURE RADI ALLAAHU ANHUNNA<\/li>\n<li>U+FD48 ARABIC LIGATURE ALAYHIM AS-SALAAM<\/li>\n<li>U+FD49 ARABIC LIGATURE ALAYHIMAA AS-SALAAM<\/li>\n<li>U+FD4D ARABIC LIGATURE ALAYHAA AS-SALAAM<\/li>\n<li>U+FD90 ARABIC LIGATURE RAHMATU ALLAAHI ALAYH (this character is not officially in Unicode,<br \/>\nit is in the pipeline for a future version of the Unicode Standard)<\/li>\n<li>U+FD91 ARABIC LIGATURE RAHMATU ALLAAHI ALAYHAA (this character is not officially in Unicode,<br \/>\nit is in the pipeline for a future version of the Unicode Standard)<\/li>\n<li>U+FDFE ARABIC LIGATURE SUBHAANAHU WA TAAALAA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2023-Oct-23 (SIL WSTech team) Awami Nastaliq Version 3.200<\/h3>\n<h4>Improved<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Fixed bug in dot removal for YEH followed by COMBINING Hamza (U+064A U+0654)<\/li>\n<li>Fixed some minor kerning\/collision\/spacing bugs<\/li>\n<li>Changed shape of mark on 06C7 (Arabic U) to look like a comma instead of a pesh<\/li>\n<li>Created bold forms of the honorifics<\/li>\n<li>Changed PUA codepoint U+E003 to U+FD47 ARABIC LIGATURE ALAYHI AS-SALAAM<\/li>\n<li>Corrected weight class of Medium, SemiBold, and ExtraBold fonts<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>New<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Added six characters:\n<ul>\n<li>U+06A0 ARABIC LETTER AIN WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+06AD ARABIC LETTER NG<\/li>\n<li>U+06BD ARABIC LETTER NOON WITH THREE DOTS ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+0762 ARABIC LETTER KEHEH WITH DOT ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+FDCF ARABIC LIGATURE SALAAMUHU ALAYNAA<\/li>\n<li>U+10ED0 ARABIC BIBLICAL END OF VERSE (this character is not officially in Unicode, it is in the pipeline for a future version of the Unicode Standard)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2023-Jan-30 (SIL WSTech team) Awami Nastaliq Version 3.100<\/h3>\n<h4>Improved<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Fixed a bug that manifested as disappearing glyphs<\/li>\n<li>Fixed some minor kerning\/collision\/spacing bugs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2022-Sep-20 (SIL WSTech team) Awami Nastaliq Version 3.000<\/h3>\n<h4>New<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Added 4 weights &#8212; Medium, SemiBold, Bold, and ExtraBold<\/li>\n<li>Added three characters:\n<ul>\n<li>U+08C8 ARABIC LETTER GRAF<\/li>\n<li>U+069B ARABIC LETTER SEEN WITH THREE DOTS BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+069C ARABIC LETTER SEEN WITH THREE DOTS BELOW AND THREE DOTS ABOVE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Improved<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Modified rules for forming the Allah ligature<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a bug affecting the right margin<\/li>\n<li>Fixed a problem with the behavior of the yeh with hamza<\/li>\n<li>Added a short version of the final sad<\/li>\n<li>Various improvements to beh forms<\/li>\n<li>Collision fixes<\/li>\n<li>Changed the default value of the short forms feature to use all short forms<\/li>\n<li>Added a special form of khah+zabar+meem+jeem+heh-doachashmee to avoid excessive height<\/li>\n<li>Flattened a couple of special ligatures<\/li>\n<li>Changed dopesh to use 69 form consistently<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Removed<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Removed &#8220;Small nuqtas&#8221; feature<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2021-Apr-29 (SIL WSTech team) Awami Nastaliq Version 2.200<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Improved spacing and kerning involving punctuation<\/li>\n<li>Corrected nuqtas in dul character<\/li>\n<li>Fixed collision bug that manifested itself in Paratext<\/li>\n<li>Fixed other obscure bugs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2021-Jan-18 (SIL WSTech team) Awami Nastaliq Version 2.100<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Added four honorific ligatures\n<ul>\n<li>U+FDFA ARABIC LIGATURE SALLALLAHOU ALAYHEWASALLAM<\/li>\n<li>U+FDFB ARABIC LIGATURE JALLAJALALOUHOU<\/li>\n<li>U+FDFD ARABIC LIGATURE BISMILLAH AR-RAHMAN AR-RAHEEM<\/li>\n<li>U+E003 ALAYHI AS-SALAAM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Added U+075A DAL WITH INVERTED SMALL V BELOW<\/li>\n<li>Adjusted shapes of lam + alef combination, certain reh forms, medial heh goal + reh<\/li>\n<li>Adjusted position of honorific diacritics<\/li>\n<li>Adjusted position of superscript-alef on lam<\/li>\n<li>Added special ligature forms for three words<\/li>\n<li>Added short forms of jeem+bariyeh, beh+qaf\/waw, final jeem, final ain<\/li>\n<li>Added wider form of jeem+kaf combination where needed<\/li>\n<li>Improved alignment of kafs, alef, and bariyeh with the right margin<\/li>\n<li>Increased spacing when sequences overlap<\/li>\n<li>Improved kerning of punctuation<\/li>\n<li>Improved kerning for rehs and other final forms<\/li>\n<li>Improved connections with medial\/final fehs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2019-Jun-19 (SIL WSTech team) Awami Nastaliq Version 2.000<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Ten new characters &#8211; U+06C8, U+06CA, U+06CB, U+06CF, U+077E, U+077F, U+0695, U+06A4, U+08C7, U+221A<\/li>\n<li>Adjust behavior of nuqtas over sequences of beh\/teh\/theh\/peh\/etc.<\/li>\n<li>Changed shape of beh+seen and beh+sad before sad, tah, ain, feh, qaf, and final noon.<\/li>\n<li>Improved glyph-shape approximations for automatic collision fixing<\/li>\n<li>Adjusted diagonal cluster fitting involving short sequences<\/li>\n<li>Adjusted shape of meem heads<\/li>\n<li>Adjusted behavior of final-reh + zer<\/li>\n<li>Added and tweaked anchors<\/li>\n<li>Added smaller flat nukta for certain cases<\/li>\n<li>Adjusted shape of pre-jeem medial lam, keheh and gaf<\/li>\n<li>Adjusted position of salaam ulena ligature<\/li>\n<li>Adjusted position of Arabic zero characters<\/li>\n<li>Reduced size of U+060E<\/li>\n<li>Fixed bugs in bariyeh attachments<\/li>\n<li>Removed &#8220;Show invisible characters&#8221; feature<\/li>\n<li>Fixed bug in &#8220;Hamza&#8221; feature (Arabic style setting)<\/li>\n<li>Adjusted design of U+06BA (noon ghunna) to match Unicode recommendations<\/li>\n<li>Tweaked glyph shapes and sizes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2018-Apr-24 (SIL NRSI team) Awami Nastaliq Version 1.101<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Fixed bug in positioning of final reh<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2018-Apr-03 (SIL NRSI team) Awami Nastaliq Version 1.100<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Added characters: U+0604, U+0609, U+060A, U+060B, U+061C, U+0649, U+0659, U+066E, U+066F, U+0671, U+068E, U+069E, U+06A1, U+06B7, U+06C9, U+06E0, U+06E1, U+06EA, U+06ED, U+0763, U+0772, U+0773, U+0774, U+0775, U+0776, U+0777, U+0778, U+0779, U+077A, U+077B, U+077C, U+077D, U+FDFC<\/li>\n<li>Adjusted shapes of sad, heh-doachashmee, some jeem forms, initial ains, and alternate-height kafs and gafs<\/li>\n<li>Improved shape of shadda<\/li>\n<li>Fixed right side-bearing problems with kafs, gafs, seens, and bariyeh<\/li>\n<li>Made bariyeh right-joining only<\/li>\n<li>Made many small glyph shape improvements<\/li>\n<li>Improved collision handling for special cases <\/li>\n<li>Added an omitted feature to TypeTuner capability<\/li>\n<li>Redesigned salaam ulena ligature<\/li>\n<li>Improved punctuation kerning<\/li>\n<li>Include auto-hinting for Latin characters<\/li>\n<li>Fixed bug in noon-ring implementation<\/li>\n<li>Fixed positioning problems in end of ayah<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2017-Jul-17 (SIL NRSI team) Awami Nastaliq Version 1.000<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Adjusted spacing issues between some characters<\/li>\n<li>Adjusted anchors on many glyphs<\/li>\n<li>Adjusted digit kerning<\/li>\n<li>Adjusted design of Kafs\/Gafs\/Lams\/Meems<\/li>\n<li>Fixed font compression problems on OSX<\/li>\n<li>Changed design of U+061B<\/li>\n<li>Improved design of initial and medial U+067C (teh ring)<\/li>\n<li>Removed U+FEFB (lam\/alef ligature)<\/li>\n<li>Tweaked positioning of some character combinations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2017-Apr-11 (SIL NRSI team) Awami Nastaliq Beta3<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Changed angle of vertical strokes on alef, lam, kaf, gaf, and tah forms<\/li>\n<li>Increased the line height by 20%<\/li>\n<li>Changed shapes of a number of letter forms: tah, bariyeh, feh (head shape), dal, reh, some meems, some heh-goals, isolate kaf\/gaf, some initial jeems, pesh, dopesh, name marker<\/li>\n<li>Added Arabic style punctuation; cleaned up behavior of Arabic vs. Latin style punctuation<\/li>\n<li>Added visible versions of invisible characters such as directional markers, directional embedding, no-break spaces, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Added features: Full stop alternate (dash vs. dot) and Punctuation (default, Arabic, or Latin)<\/li>\n<li>Added 06CE &#8211; yeh with small V; 06D5 &#8211; Ae<\/li>\n<li>Adjust size of spaces to match rescaling that happened in beta-2 version<\/li>\n<li>Fixed bugs in hamza feature<\/li>\n<li>Cleaned up positions of diacritics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2016-Dec-7 (SIL NRSI team) Awami Nastaliq Beta2<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Increased font size by 15%<\/li>\n<li>Redesigned seen forms<\/li>\n<li>Redesigned nuqtas, made a them little smaller and closer together<\/li>\n<li>Implemented feature to allow shorter kafs\/gafs and some final forms (noon, seen, chotiyeh, bariyeh, qaf, meem, lam) when the sequences get very high<\/li>\n<li>Added feature to allow alternate position of V over lam<\/li>\n<li>Added Arabic style quote marks at a higher position than Latin<\/li>\n<li>Scaled subtending marks more appropriately<\/li>\n<li>Hand-tweaked some combinations to make more readable<\/li>\n<li>Added U+06B0 GAF WITH RING<\/li>\n<li>Added &#8220;salaam ulena&#8221; ligature<\/li>\n<li>Redesigned initial beh before meem<\/li>\n<li>Made nuqta positions on seens and sads more consistent<\/li>\n<li>Reworked ain connections<\/li>\n<li>Fixed shape of Arabic 4 and 5<\/li>\n<li>Adjusted various letter shapes<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2016-Aug-1 (SIL NRSI team) Awami Nastaliq Beta1<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Beta1 release based on Alpha2 feedback<\/li>\n<li>Additional characters and features added<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2016-May-16 (SIL NRSI team) Awami Nastaliq Alpha2<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Alpha2 release based on Alpha1 feedback<\/li>\n<li>Additional characters and features added<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2015-Dec-04 (SIL NRSI team) Awami Nastaliq Alpha1<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Preliminary design font for initial feedback<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2014-Sep-10 (SIL NRSI team) Awami Nastaliq Preliminary work<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Preliminary design of isolate characters<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-Oct-17 (SIL WSTech team) Awami Nastaliq Version 3.400 Improved Fixed issues with kerning and collisions. 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