Arabic-L:GEN:Needs Arabic Font Without Dots; Transliteration font available

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Date: 31 May 2006
From:rogier visser <rogier.visser at student.uva.nl>
Subject:Needs Arabic Font Without Dots; Transliteration font available

Hello,

I am working on a project on digitalizing Arabic manuscripts. I am  
looking for a font that contains Arabic characters without any  
diacritical dots, for instance a ta' without the two dots, or a fa'  
without the dot. Does anybody know of a font that supports this?
I tried to create mine, but it doesn't work properly (too complex to  
explain)

I also altered the font Times New Roman so that it includes Arabic  
transliteration characters (such as the t with a dot underneath). It  
includes a whole range of characters, which might come in handy for  
linguists. I sort of have the feeling that I have done work that has  
been done before, but I do not know of a similar font which is as  
complete as mine.

The font is called unayza, and includes a regular, italic, bold and  
italic/bold variant. As far as I know, it is unicode supported (with  
the possible exception of the 'ayn), so that text in Arial Unicode  
should be displayed properly in Unayza.

I would be very pleased if someone could mail me some feedback on it.
http://home.student.uva.nl/rogier.visser/unayza-0.1.zip

Many thanks
Rogier Visser

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