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Amiri (أميري) is a body text Naskh typeface
http://amirifont.org
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Alternate glyph for Meem #127

Closed KrasnayaPloshchad closed 7 years ago

KrasnayaPloshchad commented 7 years ago

This variant will transformed Meem looks as this at the end of word: 1

Scheharazade have already making this variant available in Sindhi locale. However it’s not difficult in Amiri, the prefered shape can be found in U+FDFD.

khaledhosny commented 7 years ago

I’m yet to see any evidence about Sindhi preference for this meem variant. Actually SIL fonts are the only fonts to make this claim.

KrasnayaPloshchad commented 7 years ago

On Wikimedia Commons I found a photo took from book shop, all the books printed in Sindhi. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sindhi_Literature.JPG Then I found ۾ showing this shape.

khaledhosny commented 7 years ago

Almost all instances of م or ۾ that I found in the image above use the form already in Amiri font. I’m even more convinced now that a locale variant is not needed.

KrasnayaPloshchad commented 7 years ago

So how to enable it?

khaledhosny commented 7 years ago

I meant it looks like the existing Amiri glyph for م or ۾, so no alternates are required.

KrasnayaPloshchad commented 6 years ago

I found it again in this image, in the word الم, second line: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ahmet_Karahisari_001.jpg