Version History

2024-10-21 (SIL WSTech team) Harmattan version 4.300

New

Added:
- U+0897 ARABIC PEPET
- U+10EC2 ARABIC LETTER DAL WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY BELOW
- U+10EC3 ARABIC LETTER TAH WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY BELOW
- U+10EC4 ARABIC LETTER KAF WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY BELOW
- U+10EFC ARABIC COMBINING ALEF OVERLAY
Added support for Kashmiri language
Added facility to override default language behavior through feature selection
Added support for cv76 (dagger alef) on spacing characters and tatweel

Improved

Enhanced positioning of U+06E2 ARABIC SMALL HIGH MEEM ISOLATED FORM next to adjacent vowel marks
Adjusted design of U+0883 ARABIC TATWEEL WITH OVERSTRUCK HAMZA
Improved alef+mark positioning to reduce collisions
Improved madda reordering to comply with UAX #53
Documentation enhancements

2023-04-14 (SIL WSTech team) Harmattan version 4.000

New

Added Kyrgyz language support
Added Arabic-style (rounded) versions of chevron quotes
New features:
- cv49 – Heh Doachashmee
- cv51 – Kyrgyz OE (loop/bar)
- cv54 – Yeh hamza (Standard/Right hamza)
- cv85 – Decimal separator (Small reh/Slash)
Added:
- U+061D ARABIC END OF TEXT MARK
- Due to the rarity of these characters, lam-alef ligatures have not been implemented with these new characters:
- U+0870 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH ATTACHED FATHA
- U+0871 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH ATTACHED TOP RIGHT FATHA
- U+0872 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH RIGHT MIDDLE STROKE
- U+0873 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH LEFT MIDDLE STROKE
- U+0874 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH ATTACHED KASRA
- U+0875 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH ATTACHED BOTTOM RIGHT KASRA
- U+0876 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH ATTACHED ROUND DOT ABOVE
- U+0877 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH ATTACHED RIGHT ROUND DOT
- U+0878 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH ATTACHED LEFT ROUND DOT
- U+0879 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH ATTACHED ROUND DOT BELOW
- U+087A ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH DOT ABOVE
- U+087B ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH ATTACHED TOP RIGHT FATHA AND DOT ABOVE
- U+087C ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH RIGHT MIDDLE STROKE AND DOT ABOVE
- U+087D ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH ATTACHED BOTTOM RIGHT KASRA AND DOT ABOVE
- U+087E ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH ATTACHED TOP RIGHT FATHA AND LEFT RING
- U+087F ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH RIGHT MIDDLE STROKE AND LEFT RING
- U+0880 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH ATTACHED BOTTOM RIGHT KASRA AND LEFT RING
- U+0881 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH ATTACHED RIGHT HAMZA
- U+0882 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH ATTACHED LEFT HAMZA
- U+0883 ARABIC TATWEEL WITH OVERSTRUCK HAMZA
- U+0884 ARABIC TATWEEL WITH OVERSTRUCK WAW
- U+0885 ARABIC TATWEEL WITH TWO DOTS BELOW
- U+0886 ARABIC LETTER THIN YEH
- U+0887 ARABIC BASELINE ROUND DOT
- U+0888 ARABIC RAISED ROUND DOT
- U+0889 ARABIC LETTER NOON WITH INVERTED SMALL V
- U+088A ARABIC LETTER HAH WITH INVERTED SMALL V BELOW
- U+088B ARABIC LETTER TAH WITH DOT BELOW
- U+088C ARABIC LETTER TAH WITH THREE DOTS BELOW
- U+088D ARABIC LETTER KEHEH WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY BELOW
- U+088E ARABIC VERTICAL TAIL
- U+0890 ARABIC POUND MARK ABOVE
- U+0891 ARABIC PIASTRE MARK ABOVE
- U+0898 ARABIC SMALL HIGH WORD AL-JUZ
- U+0899 ARABIC SMALL LOW WORD ISHMAAM
- U+089A ARABIC SMALL LOW WORD IMAALA
- U+089B ARABIC SMALL LOW WORD TASHEEL
- U+089C ARABIC MADDA WAAJIB
- U+089D ARABIC SUPERSCRIPT ALEF MOKHASSAS
- U+089E ARABIC DOUBLED MADDA
- U+089F ARABIC HALF MADDA OVER MADDA
- U+08B5 ARABIC LETTER QAF WITH DOT BELOW AND NO DOTS ABOVE
- U+08C8 ARABIC LETTER GRAF
- U+08C9 ARABIC SMALL FARSI YEH
- U+08CA ARABIC SMALL HIGH FARSI YEH
- U+08CB ARABIC SMALL HIGH YEH BARREE WITH TWO DOTS BELOW
- U+08CC ARABIC SMALL HIGH WORD SAH
- U+08CD ARABIC SMALL HIGH ZAH
- U+08CE ARABIC LARGE ROUND DOT ABOVE
- U+08CF ARABIC LARGE ROUND DOT BELOW
- U+08D0 ARABIC SUKUN BELOW
- U+08D1 ARABIC LARGE CIRCLE BELOW
- U+08D2 ARABIC LARGE ROUND DOT INSIDE CIRCLE BELOW
- U+08D3 ARABIC SMALL LOW WAW
- U+08D4 ARABIC SMALL HIGH WORD AR-RUB
- U+08D5 ARABIC SMALL HIGH SAD
- U+08D6 ARABIC SMALL HIGH AIN
- U+08D7 ARABIC SMALL HIGH QAF
- U+08D8 ARABIC SMALL HIGH NOON WITH KASRA
- U+08D9 ARABIC SMALL LOW NOON WITH KASRA
- U+08DA ARABIC SMALL HIGH WORD ATH-THALATHA
- U+08DB ARABIC SMALL HIGH WORD AS-SAJDA
- U+08DC ARABIC SMALL HIGH WORD AN-NISF
- U+08DD ARABIC SMALL HIGH WORD SAKTA
- U+08DE ARABIC SMALL HIGH WORD QIF
- U+08DF ARABIC SMALL HIGH WORD WAQFA
- U+08E0 ARABIC SMALL HIGH FOOTNOTE MARKER
- U+08E1 ARABIC SMALL HIGH SIGN SAFHA
- U+08E2 ARABIC DISPUTED END OF AYAH
- U+201B SINGLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK
- U+201F DOUBLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK
- U+204F REVERSED SEMICOLON
- U+2E41 REVERSED COMMA
- U+10EFD ARABIC SMALL LOW WORD SAKTA
- U+10EFE ARABIC SMALL LOW WORD QASR
- U+10EFF ARABIC SMALL LOW WORD MADDA

Improved

Fixed bug using kashida-justification in Word (where the lam-alef ligature would break)
Made U+06DB ARABIC SMALL HIGH THREE DOTS bold in the bold font
Changed default for U+0657 ARABIC INVERTED DAMMA from “open” to “filled”
Changed Kurdish language to support a U+06BE Heh Doachashmee alternate rather than U+0647 Heh alternate
Redesign
- U+0616 ARABIC SMALL HIGH LIGATURE ALEF WITH LAM WITH YEH (see https://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode15.0.0/erratafixed.html)
- U+0674 ARABIC LETTER HIGH HAMZA
- U+0675 ARABIC LETTER HIGH HAMZA ALEF
- U+0676 ARABIC LETTER HIGH HAMZA WAW
- U+0677 ARABIC LETTER U WITH HAMZA ABOVE
- U+0678 ARABIC LETTER HIGH HAMZA YEH
- U+06C5 ARABIC LETTER KIRGHIZ OE
- U+06C7 ARABIC LETTER U

Removed

Removed Graphite support from production font
Removed features:
- Alef diacritic placement (cv02)
- Arabic U (cv50)

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.

2020-06-19 (SIL WSTech team) Harmattan version 2.000

Added a bold typeface
Added support for all characters in the Arabic and Arabic Supplement blocks
Added support for all characters in the Arabic Extended-A block (except for the
Quranic annotation signs)
Added U+FDFC (rial), U+FDFD (bismillah)
Added U+02D0, U+02D8..U+02D9, U+02DB, U+02DD, U+034F, U+03C0, U+2044, U+2126, U+2202, U+2206, U+220F, U+2211, U+221A, U+221E, U+222B, U+2248, U+2260, U+2264..U+2265, U+2423
Implemented language support for Kurdish, Rohingya, Sindhi, Urdu, and Wolof variants
Implemented Dal, Heh, Arabic U, Inverted Damma, and Eastern Digits features
Implemented new Allah ligature rules
Improved support for Shaddah+kasra placement feature
Removed “Show invisible characters” feature
Added UI name strings for Graphite and OpenType features
Improvements to the design of dal- keheh-, yeh-, qaf-, ain-, heh doachashmee-, swash kaf-, and yeh barree-based characters
Improvements to the design of U+FDF2 – modified to use shadda-dagger alef (not shadda-fatha)
Improvements to the design of rohingya yeh
Improvements to the design and size of digits (latin and arabic)
Improvements to positioning of combining marks and nuktas
Adjustments to spacing around many Arabic script characters
Rework kerning logic based on new spacing around characters
Improved line spacing to support added characters
Modified underline and strikethrough position (used by some applications)
Modified superscript and subscript size and positioning (used by some applications)
Implemented support for UNICODE ARABIC MARK RENDERING (UTR #53)

2016-04-07 (SIL NRSI team) Harmattan Version 1.001 (production release)

Changed internal font names
changed space of U+00A0 to match regular space

2015-03-25 (SIL NRSI team) Harmattan Version 1.00 (production release)

Further improvements to kerning.

2014-12-11 (SIL NRSI team) Harmattan alpha Version 0.119 (test release)

Improved kerning logic in OpenType (via GPOS) and Graphite

2014-10-27 (SIL NRSI team) Harmattan alpha Version 0.118 (test release)

Improved display:
- Reduced width of arrowhead combining marks to reduce collisions
- Added kerning logic in OpenType (via GPOS) and Graphite

2014-10-14 (SIL NRSI team) Harmattan alpha Version 0.117 (test release)

Alpha release of font for feedback
Revision of design of characters based on feedback received
- Shortened kasra and fatha (and similar characters and glyphs) to help with collisions
- Adjusted design to final form of U+06D2 to help with collisions
- Increased spacing after reh-like characters
- African qaf, African noon, African feh added (in the Unicode pipeline)
- A few minor anchor point tweaks
Changed default behavior for cv62 to have the kasra in the “lowered” position
- Removed cv62 as an OpenType feature. It is now only available through Graphite or TypeTunerWeb
Default linespacing adjusted to handle tallest base character with shadda and lowest base character so these are not clipped
Added Normal and Loose linespacing adjustments for TypeTunerWeb

2014-06-24 (SIL NRSI team) Harmattan alpha Version 0.111 (test release)

Alpha release of font for feedback
Revision of design of characters based on feedback received
- Isolate reh and noon ghunna characters modified
- Tatweel (U+0640) length was shortened
- APs on many characters were adjusted
- Adjusted design of U+08F7..U+08FD (arrowheads)
added U+065E, U+08F0, U+08F1, U+08F2, U+08F3

2014-04-03 (SIL NRSI team) Harmattan alpha Version 0.106 (test release)

Alpha release of font for feedback
Revision of design of characters based on feedback received

2013-12-04 (SIL NRSI team) Harmattan alpha Version 0.010 (test release)

Alpha release of font for feedback only (not an actual font release)
Arabic script design work is based on Fouta font (see copyright and acknowledgments) with significant modification
Latin script design is based on a Andika (see copyright). The Latin Andika glyphs have been reduced in size to match Harmattan