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 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” postion
    • 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