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The package of IBM’s typeface, IBM Plex.
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[Arabic] Possible to disable the included logographs? #336

Closed barmadrid closed 3 years ago

barmadrid commented 4 years ago

It seems that certain Arabic words are written (rendered) as logograph, for example the word محمد (Muhammad) below:

Screenshot from 2020-08-17 15-19-24

Compared to normal (non logograph) version as in Noto Sans Arabic:

Screenshot from 2020-08-17 15-19-50

Can we disable this at build/run time?

BoldMonday commented 4 years ago

The inclusion of the Muhammad glyph was a conscious decision by the designers of Plex Sans Arabic. There are no options to control the behaviour of glyph substitutions during build/run time and I’m not sure there will be.

johnnyshields commented 4 years ago

is it possible to disable the logographs with a zero-width joiner char?

waelmorcos commented 4 years ago

We have an update coming soon that should make this ligature optional. In the meantime you can add a Madda anywhere in the word and the ligature would be dis-activated.

barmadrid commented 4 years ago

Wonderful news @waelmorcos Thank you!

johnnyshields commented 4 years ago

Will non-logograph be default?

waelmorcos commented 4 years ago

Yes

mjabbink commented 4 years ago

thanks @waelmorcos

mjabbink commented 3 years ago

@waelmorcos @BoldMonday should this issue close?

BoldMonday commented 3 years ago

@mjabbink Fixed in latest Arabic update. Issue can be closed.

BoldMonday commented 3 years ago

Fixed in Plex Sans Arabic v1.2 (part of Release v6.0.0).