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title: Scheherazade New - Announcement
fontversion: 4.500
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We are very pleased to announce a new release of Scheherazade New, an Arabic script font designed in the traditional Naskh style.

### Changes

This release includes the following changes for this version:

#### New

- Added:
  - 20C1 SAUDI RIYAL SIGN

#### Improved

- Improved kerning in the context of madda above: 
  - U+067C ARABIC LETTER TEH WITH RING
  - U+0751 ARABIC LETTER BEH WITH DOT BELOW AND THREE DOTS ABOVE
  - U+0754 ARABIC LETTER BEH WITH TWO DOTS BELOW AND DOT ABOVE
  - U+08BE ARABIC LETTER PEH WITH SMALL V

#### Known issues
- Shaping for the newly added characters may not yet occur in applications
- Medial and final high hamza characters may have collisions (these likely do not occur)
- Lam + high hamza alef ligature does not form as it likely does not occur
- In InDesign: some behaviors, such as the _lam-alef_ ligature, raised _kasra_ with _shadda_, and subtending marks, will not function correctly unless **Ligatures** is turned on in the **Characters** panel.

Both desktop and web fonts are provided in a single, all-platforms package on the [Download page](https://software.sil.org/scheherazade/download).

