Changes

This release includes the following changes for this version:

  • Added Scheherazade Bold font
  • Slight improvements in design of the Regular face:
    • U+060C ARABIC COMMA
    • U+061B ARABIC SEMICOLON
    • U+065D ARABIC REVERSED DAMMA
    • U+0671 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WASLA (improvement in wasla)
    • U+06C1 ARABIC LETTER HEH GOAL
    • U+08AA ARABIC LETTER REH WITH LOOP
  • Diacritic selection feature of Graphite removed; fixed feature name/value string mismatches
  • Adjusted sidebearings for U+06EF and U+08B2 to be more consistent
  • Fix OT Character variants to work in all language tags
  • Small kerning adjustments
  • Added three Unicode 8.0 characters
    • U+08B3 ARABIC LETTER AIN WITH THREE DOTS BELOW
    • U+08B4 ARABIC LETTER KAF WITH DOT BELOW
    • U+08E3 ARABIC TURNED DAMMA BELOW
  • Added eight characters that are not officially in Unicode. They are in the “pipeline.”
    • U+08B6 ARABIC LETTER BEH WITH SMALL MEEM ABOVE
    • U+08B7 ARABIC LETTER PEH WITH SMALL MEEM ABOVE
    • U+08B8 ARABIC LETTER TEH WITH SMALL TEH ABOVE
    • U+08B9 ARABIC LETTER REH WITH SMALL NOON ABOVE
    • U+08BA ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH TWO DOTS BELOW AND SMALL NOON ABOVE
    • U+08BB ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN FEH
    • U+08BC ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN QAF
    • U+08BD ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN NOON
  • Renamed postscript name of Scheherazade Regular from “Scheherazade” to “Scheherazade-Regular”

Known Issues

  • U+08B8 ARABIC LETTER TEH WITH SMALL TEH ABOVE is not actually in the font.

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