{"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":"2025-08-11T15:14:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T15:14:41","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/scheherazade\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"Version History"},"content":{"rendered":"<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:<\/li>\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<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. They are in the &#8220;pipeline.&#8221; Please note that there is a slight possibility that these codepoints could change.\n<ul>\n<li>08A1 ARABIC LETTER BEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>08AD ARABIC LETTER LOW ALEF<\/li>\n<li>08AE ARABIC LETTER DAL WITH THREE DOTS BELOW<\/li>\n<li>08AF ARABIC LETTER SAD WITH THREE DOTS BELOW<\/li>\n<li>08B0 ARABIC LETTER GAF WITH INVERTED STROKE<\/li>\n<li>08B1 ARABIC LETTER STRAIGHT WAW<\/li>\n<li>08B2 ARABIC LETTER ZAIN WITH INVERTED V ABOVE<\/li>\n<li>08FF ARABIC MARK SIDEWAYS NOON GHUNNA<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Changed glyph design for U+06F4 EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT FOUR<\/li>\n<li>Changed default maddah to be smaller size (as mentioned below, ability to change back to larger size was added)<\/li>\n<li>Added OpenType support for character variants<\/li>\n<li>Added Graphite support<\/li>\n<li>Added TypeTuner features to access variant glyphs for:<br \/>\n    &#8211; Dal, Meem, Heh, Arabic U, Maddah, Damma, Inverted Damma, Eastern digits<\/li>\n<li>Renamed TypeTuner features for:\n<ul>\n<li>Six-nine dammatan > Dammatan<\/li>\n<li>Downward comma > Comma<\/li>\n<li>Jeh > Jeh-hack<\/li>\n<li>Dotless head of khah > Dotless head of khah hack<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Removed TypeTuner feature for Old Shina hack    <\/li>\n<li>Removed AAT support<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2011-02-07 (SIL NRSI team) Scheherazade Version 1.005<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Added TypeTuner feature to access jeh alternate<\/li>\n<li>Added developer release<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2009-09-01 (SIL NRSI team) Scheherazade Version 1.004<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Added TypeTuner feature to access language alternates<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2009-02-04 (SIL NRSI team) Scheherazade Version 1.003<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Added TypeTuner feature to control shadda+kasra rendering<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>2008-10-25 (SIL NRSI team) Scheherazade Version 1.002<br \/>\n&#8211; Added TypeTuner table with Shina hacks<\/p>\n<h3>2007-06-21 (SIL NRSI team) Scheherazade Version 1.001<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Re-released under OFL<\/li>\n<li>no other changes from 1.0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>2005-06-03 (SIL NRSI team) Scheherazade Version 1.0<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>First public version<\/li>\n<li>Released under the SIL Freeware License<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-08-11 (SIL WSTech team) Scheherazade New version 4.400 New Added: 088F ARABIC LETTER NOON WITH RING ABOVE FBC6 ARABIC LIGATURE RAHMATU ALLAAHI ALAYHIM FBC7 ARABIC LIGATURE RAHMATU ALLAAHI ALAYHIMAA FD90 ARABIC LIGATURE RAHMATU ALLAAHI ALAYH FD91 ARABIC LIGATURE RAHMATU ALLAAHI ALAYHAA 10EC5 ARABIC SMALL YEH BARREE WITH TWO DOTS BELOW 10EC6 ARABIC LETTER THIN NOON [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"hide_sidebar":false,"hide_h1":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1007","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/scheherazade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/scheherazade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/scheherazade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/scheherazade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/scheherazade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1007"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/scheherazade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1235,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/scheherazade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1007\/revisions\/1235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/scheherazade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}