{"id":1041,"date":"2025-08-11T16:10:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/harmattan\/?p=1041"},"modified":"2025-08-11T16:14:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:14:30","slug":"release-4-400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/harmattan\/release-4-400\/","title":{"rendered":"Harmattan Release 4.400"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are very pleased to announce a new release of Harmattan, an Arabic script font designed for use by languages in West Africa.<\/p>\n<h3>Changes<\/h3>\n<p>This release includes the following changes for this version:<\/p>\n<h4>New<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Added:\n<ul>\n<li>088F ARABIC LETTER NOON WITH RING ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>FDFE ARABIC LIGATURE SUBHAANAHU WA TAAALAA<\/li>\n<li>FDFF ARABIC LIGATURE AZZA WA JALL<\/li>\n<li>10EC5 ARABIC SMALL YEH BARREE WITH TWO DOTS BELOW <\/li>\n<li>10EC6 ARABIC LETTER THIN NOON <\/li>\n<li>10EC7 ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH FOUR DOTS BELOW <\/li>\n<li>10ED0 ARABIC BIBLICAL END OF VERSE <\/li>\n<li>10EFA ARABIC DOUBLE VERTICAL BAR BELOW <\/li>\n<li>10EFB ARABIC SMALL LOW NOON <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Added cv88 (Guillemet) to provide a choice for angled guillemot characters in Arabic script<\/li>\n<li>Added Malay Jawi language support <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Improved<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Added sample strings and feature tooltips to the character variants for applications that support them<\/li>\n<li>Made width of punctuation space (U+2008) consistent with width of period<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Known issues<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Shaping for the newly added characters may not yet occur in applications.<\/li>\n<li>Medial and final high hamza characters may have collisions (these likely do not occur).<\/li>\n<li>Lam + high hamza alef ligature does not form as it likely does not occur.<\/li>\n<li>In InDesign: some behaviors, such as the <em>lam-alef<\/em> ligature, raised <em>kasra<\/em> with <em>shadda<\/em>, and subtending marks, will not function correctly unless <strong>Ligatures<\/strong> is turned on in the <strong>Characters<\/strong> panel.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Both desktop and web fonts are provided in a single, all-platforms package on the <a href=\"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/harmattan\/download\">Download page<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are very pleased to announce a new release of Harmattan, an Arabic script font designed for use by languages in West Africa. Changes This release includes the following changes for this version: New Added: 088F ARABIC LETTER NOON WITH RING ABOVE FDFE ARABIC LIGATURE SUBHAANAHU WA TAAALAA FDFF ARABIC LIGATURE AZZA WA JALL 10EC5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/harmattan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/harmattan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/harmattan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/harmattan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/harmattan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/harmattan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1042,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/harmattan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1041\/revisions\/1042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/harmattan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/harmattan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/harmattan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}