{"id":1007,"date":"2021-11-10T22:48:49","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T22:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/scheherazade\/?page_id=1007"},"modified":"2026-04-15T18:01:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T18:01:40","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/scheherazade\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"Version History"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>2026-04-15 (SIL WSTech team) Scheherazade New version 4.500<\/h3>\n<h4>New<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Added:\n<ul>\n<li>20C1 SAUDI RIYAL SIGN<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Improved<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Improved kerning in the context of madda above:\n<ul>\n<li>U+067C ARABIC LETTER TEH WITH RING<\/li>\n<li>U+0751 ARABIC LETTER BEH WITH DOT BELOW AND THREE DOTS ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+0754 ARABIC LETTER BEH WITH TWO DOTS BELOW AND DOT ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>U+08BE ARABIC LETTER PEH WITH SMALL V<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2025-08-11 (SIL WSTech team) Scheherazade New version 4.400<\/h3>\n<h4>New<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Added:\n<ul>\n<li>088F ARABIC LETTER NOON WITH RING ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>FBC6 ARABIC LIGATURE RAHMATU ALLAAHI ALAYHIM<\/li>\n<li>FBC7 ARABIC LIGATURE RAHMATU ALLAAHI ALAYHIMAA<\/li>\n<li>FD90 ARABIC LIGATURE RAHMATU ALLAAHI ALAYH<\/li>\n<li>FD91 ARABIC LIGATURE RAHMATU ALLAAHI ALAYHAA<\/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>Minor anchor adjustment to final heh on Allah ligature<\/li>\n<li>Fix design of simplified form U+FDCF ARABIC LIGATURE SALAAMUHU ALAYNAA in Medium and SemiBold weights<\/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<h3>2024-10-21 (SIL WSTech team) Scheherazade New version 4.300<\/h3>\n<h4>New<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Added:\n<ul>\n<li>U+0897 ARABIC PEPET<\/li>\n<li>U+10EC2 ARABIC LETTER DAL WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+10EC3 ARABIC LETTER TAH WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+10EC4 ARABIC LETTER KAF WITH TWO DOTS VERTICALLY BELOW<\/li>\n<li>U+10EFC ARABIC COMBINING ALEF OVERLAY<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Added support for Kashmiri language<\/li>\n<li>Added facility to override default language behavior through feature selection<\/li>\n<li>Added support for cv76 (dagger alef) on spacing characters and tatweel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Improved<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Minor anchor adjustment on U+06D6<\/li>\n<li>Enhanced positioning of U+06E2 ARABIC SMALL HIGH MEEM ISOLATED FORM next to adjacent vowel marks<\/li>\n<li>Tweaks to the design of some of the honorifics<\/li>\n<li>Improved alef+mark positioning to reduce collisions<\/li>\n<li>Improved madda reordering to comply with UAX #53<\/li>\n<li>Documentation enhancements<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2023-04-14 (SIL WSTech team) Scheherazade New version 4.000<\/h3>\n<h4>New<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Added Medium and SemiBold weights<\/li>\n<li>Added Arabic-style (rounded) versions of chevron quotes<\/li>\n<li>Added Bold calligraphic honorifics (previous ones were the same weight as Regular)<\/li>\n<li>Added:\n<ul>\n<li>U+201B SINGLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK<\/li>\n<li>U+201F DOUBLE HIGH-REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK<\/li>\n<li>U+10EFD ARABIC SMALL LOW WORD SAKTA<\/li>\n<li>U+10EFE ARABIC SMALL LOW WORD QASR<\/li>\n<li>U+10EFF ARABIC SMALL LOW WORD MADDA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>New features:\n<ul>\n<li>cv49 &#8211; Heh Doachashmee<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Improved<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Changed Kurdish language to support a U+06BE Heh Doachashmee alternate rather than U+0647 Heh alternate<\/li>\n<li>Redesigned\n<ul>\n<li>U+0616 ARABIC SMALL HIGH LIGATURE ALEF WITH LAM WITH YEH (see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.unicode.org\/versions\/Unicode15.0.0\/erratafixed.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.unicode.org\/versions\/Unicode15.0.0\/erratafixed.html<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>Slight adjustments to:\n<ul>\n<li>gaf-like characters (such as U+06AF ARABIC LETTER GAF)<\/li>\n<li>U+0601 ARABIC SIGN SANAH<\/li>\n<li>U+0605 ARABIC NUMBER MARK ABOVE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Small improvements to kerning<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Removed<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Removed support for Sindhi-style comma when Sindhi language is selected<\/li>\n<li>Removed Graphite support<\/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<\/ul>\n<h3>2021-11-22 (SIL WSTech team) Scheherazade New Version 3.300 (official release)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Added U+0870..U+088E, U+0890..U+0891, U+0898..U+089F, U+08B5, U+08C8..U+08D2<\/li>\n<li>Added bold version of glyph for U+08AD ARABIC LETTER LOW ALEF<\/li>\n<li>Added decimal separator feature (cv85)<\/li>\n<li>Added a longer kashida for cases where diacritics are above or below U+0640 ARABIC TATWEEL<\/li>\n<li>Revised rules for forming Allah ligature<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2021-07-15 (SIL WSTech team) Scheherazade New Version 3.200 (official release)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Double-encoded honorifics to use both PUA codepoints and official Unicode 14.0 codepoints<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2021-03-26 (SIL WSTech team) Scheherazade New Version 3.100 (official release)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Fixed Graphite bug related to spacing of U+2E41<\/li>\n<li>Fixed OpenType bug with diacritic position (in the context of a shadda) on lam-alef<\/li>\n<li>Fixed OpenType bug in context of kashida insertion (affected diacritics and spacing)<\/li>\n<li>Fixed misencoded Delta (U+2209 to U+2206)<\/li>\n<li>Fixed TypeTuner bug related to shadda+kasra feature<\/li>\n<li>Added and implemented support for U+08E2 DISPUTED END OF AYAH<\/li>\n<li>Added two more honorific ligatures<\/li>\n<li>Updated design of most simple spelled forms of honorific ligatures<\/li>\n<li>Created calligraphic forms of honorific ligatures<\/li>\n<li>Added feature cv81, Honorific ligatures, to support turning on simple forms of honorific ligatures<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2020-11-5 (SIL WSTech team) Scheherazade New Version 3.000 (official release)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Renamed font to Scheherazade New<\/li>\n<li>Resized glyphs to better fit standard Arabic script fonts<\/li>\n<li>Adjusted line-spacing to reflect larger characters<\/li>\n<li>Adjusted underline and strikethrough positions and weight<\/li>\n<li>Updated Arabic script character repertoire to support all characters in the Unicode 13.0 BMP Arabic blocks (except for U+08E2 disputed end of ayah)<\/li>\n<li>Updated Latin script repertoire to support &#8220;Recommended characters for Non-Roman fonts&#8221; https:\/\/scriptsource.org\/entry\/gg5wm9hhd3<\/li>\n<li>Added U+204F and U+2E41 for Sindhi language support<\/li>\n<li>Added U+FDFA (sallallahou alayhe wasallam), U+FDFB (jallajalalouhou), and U+FDFD (bismillah)<\/li>\n<li>Added Private Use Area honorific ligatures (all of these are in the Unicode pipeline at non-stable codepoints).<\/li>\n<li>Adjusted vertical position of isolate keheh-like characters<\/li>\n<li>Changed design of small v and inverted small v characters (U+063D, U+065A, U+065B, U+0692, U+06B5, U+06C9, U+06CE, U+06EE, U+06EF, U+06FF, U+0756, U+0769, U+077E, U+08B2, U+08BE..U+08C2)<\/li>\n<li>Changed design of U+06C5 for Kyrgyz language and added feature cv51, Kyrgyz OE, supporting the bar design<\/li>\n<li>Changed design of U+0677 and U+06C7<\/li>\n<li>Changed design of high hamza characters (U+0674..U+0678)<\/li>\n<li>Adjusted the weight and position of some dashes to make them consistent<\/li>\n<li>Implemented new Allah ligature rules<\/li>\n<li>Implemented support for UNICODE ARABIC MARK RENDERING (UTR #53)<\/li>\n<li>Improved kerning &#8211; reh\/waw, lam-alef ligature, AE+kaf-like initials, and others<\/li>\n<li>Added collision fixes for certain combinations<\/li>\n<li>Fixed bug in forming of lam\/alef ligatures when automatic kashida justification is turned on<\/li>\n<li>Added UI name strings for Graphite and OpenType features<\/li>\n<li>Removed support for Sindhi-style heh when Sindhi language is selected<\/li>\n<li>Removed support for Urdu-style heh when Urdu language is selected<\/li>\n<li>Removed &#8220;Arabic U&#8221; feature<\/li>\n<li>Removed &#8220;Show invisible characters&#8221; feature<\/li>\n<li>Removed &#8220;Jeh hack&#8221; feature<\/li>\n<li>Removed &#8220;Dotless head of Khah hack&#8221; feature<\/li>\n<li>Added feature cv54, Yeh hamza, for Kyrgyz language<\/li>\n<li>Added Kyrgyz language support in Graphite and OpenType<\/li>\n<li>Added Wolof language support in Graphite and OpenType<\/li>\n<li>Added support for Comma downward when Sindhi language is selected<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2015-08-19 (SIL NRSI team) Scheherazade Version 2.100 (official release)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Renamed postscript name of Scheherazade Regular from &#8220;Scheherazade&#8221; to &#8220;Scheherazade-Regular&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2015-07-17 (SIL NRSI team) Scheherazade Version 2.092 (test release)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Added Scheherazade Bold font<\/li>\n<li>Slight improvements in design of the Regular face:\n<ul>\n<li>060C ARABIC COMMA<\/li>\n<li>061B ARABIC SEMICOLON<\/li>\n<li>065D ARABIC REVERSED DAMMA<\/li>\n<li>0671 ARABIC LETTER ALEF WASLA (improvement in wasla)<\/li>\n<li>06C1 ARABIC LETTER HEH GOAL<\/li>\n<li>08AA ARABIC LETTER REH WITH LOOP<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Diacritic selection feature of Graphite removed; fixed feature name\/value string mismatches<\/li>\n<li>Adjusted sidebearings for U+06EF and U+08B2 to be more consistent<\/li>\n<li>Fix OT Character variants to work in all language tags<\/li>\n<li>Small kerning adjustments<\/li>\n<li>Added three Unicode 8.0 characters\n<ul>\n<li>08B3 ARABIC LETTER AIN WITH THREE DOTS BELOW<\/li>\n<li>08B4 ARABIC LETTER KAF WITH DOT BELOW<\/li>\n<li>08E3 ARABIC TURNED DAMMA BELOW<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Added five characters that are not officially in Unicode. They are in the &#8220;pipeline.&#8221;\n<ul>\n<li>08B6 ARABIC LETTER BEH WITH SMALL MEEM ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>08B7 ARABIC LETTER PEH WITH SMALL MEEM ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>08B8 ARABIC LETTER TEH WITH SMALL TEH ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>08B9 ARABIC LETTER REH WITH SMALL NOON ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>08BA ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH TWO DOTS BELOW AND SMALL NOON ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>08BB ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN FEH<\/li>\n<li>08BC ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN QAF<\/li>\n<li>08BD ARABIC LETTER AFRICAN NOON<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2014-02-12 (SIL NRSI team) Scheherazade Version 2.020 (maintenance release)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Fix language-specific OpenType rendering for Sindhi, Urdu, Kurdish<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2013-09-11 (SIL NRSI team) Scheherazade Version 2.010 (maintenance release)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Fix rendering of mixtures of upper and lower combining marks<\/li>\n<li>Fix Graphite shaping for U+08AC ARABIC LETTER ROHINGYA YEH<\/li>\n<li>Reduce font size by taking advantage of composite TT glyphs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2013-08-01 (SIL NRSI team) Scheherazade Version 2.000 (official release)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Removed white on black glyph for full stop<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2013-07-15 (SIL NRSI team) Scheherazade Version 1.940 (test release)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Kerning added for reh-like and waw-like characters<\/li>\n<li>Added five characters that are not officially in Unicode. They are in the &#8220;pipeline.&#8221;\n<ul>\n<li>061C ARABIC LETTER MARK (ALM)<\/li>\n<li>2066 LEFT-TO-RIGHT ISOLATE<\/li>\n<li>2067 RIGHT-TO-LEFT ISOLATE<\/li>\n<li>2068 FIRST STRONG ISOLATE<\/li>\n<li>2069 POP DIRECTIONAL ISOLATE<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>0603 now supports up to 4 digits<\/li>\n<li>fixed lam+alef collisions with combining marks below<\/li>\n<li>upper vowel changed to render below maddah (except for 065E)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2013-04-18 (SIL NRSI team) Scheherazade Version 1.930 (test release)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Typetuner now adjusts Graphite features as well as OpenType<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2013-03-05 (SIL NRSI team) Scheherazade Version 1.920 (test release)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Added Rohingya language<\/li>\n<li>Shaping for Subtending marks fixed<\/li>\n<li>Added line spacing feature for TypeTuner only<\/li>\n<li>Moved U+065E ARABIC FATHA WITH TWO DOTS to proper position between maddah and alef<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2013-01-08 (SIL NRSI team) Scheherazade Version 1.910 (test release)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Improved positioning and size of dagger-alef (U+0670)<\/li>\n<li>Added feature to access variant glyphs for Superscript Alef (default is small)<\/li>\n<li>Added Rohingya-style variant to Eastern digits feature<\/li>\n<li>Improved design of FDF2<\/li>\n<li>Some improvement in collision avoidance<\/li>\n<li>Shaping for Subtending marks fixed<\/li>\n<li>Changed glyph design of Urdu-style U+06F4<\/li>\n<li>Fixed position of hamza with U+06B8 + U+0625 are in isolate form<\/li>\n<li>Made U+06BA Arabic Letter Noon Ghunna dotless in all forms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2012-09-18 (SIL NRSI team) Scheherazade Version 1.900 (test release)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Improved positioning of combining marks<\/li>\n<li>Improved positioning and size of dagger-alef (U+0670)<\/li>\n<li>Added support for Unicode 5.1, 6.0 and 6.1 Arabic additions<\/li>\n<li>Added eight characters that are not officially in Unicode. 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