# fontconfig/fc-lang/ar.orth
#
# Copyright © 2002 Keith Packard
+# Copyright © 2009 Roozbeh Pournader
#
# Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
# documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that
# TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
# PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
#
-# Arabic (AR)
-#
-# General forms. Leave these out for now as most software
-# expects presentation forms.
-#
-#060C # ARABIC COMMA
-#061B # ARABIC SEMICOLON
-#061F # ARABIC QUESTION MARK
-#0621 # ARABIC LETTER HAMZA
-#0622 # ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE
-#0623 # ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE
-#0624 # ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH HAMZA ABOVE
-#0625 # ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW
-#0626 # ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE
-#0627 # ARABIC LETTER ALEF
-#0628 # ARABIC LETTER BEH
-#0629 # ARABIC LETTER TEH MARBUTA
-#062A # ARABIC LETTER TEH
-#062B # ARABIC LETTER THEH
-#062C # ARABIC LETTER JEEM
-#062D # ARABIC LETTER HAH
-#062E # ARABIC LETTER KHAH
-#062F # ARABIC LETTER DAL
-#0630 # ARABIC LETTER THAL
-#0631 # ARABIC LETTER REH
-#0632 # ARABIC LETTER ZAIN
-#0633 # ARABIC LETTER SEEN
-#0634 # ARABIC LETTER SHEEN
-#0635 # ARABIC LETTER SAD
-#0636 # ARABIC LETTER DAD
-#0637 # ARABIC LETTER TAH
-#0638 # ARABIC LETTER ZAH
-#0639 # ARABIC LETTER AIN
-#063A # ARABIC LETTER GHAIN
-#0640 # ARABIC TATWEEL
-#0641 # ARABIC LETTER FEH
-#0642 # ARABIC LETTER QAF
-#0643 # ARABIC LETTER KAF
-#0644 # ARABIC LETTER LAM
-#0645 # ARABIC LETTER MEEM
-#0646 # ARABIC LETTER NOON
-#0647 # ARABIC LETTER HEH
-#0648 # ARABIC LETTER WAW
-#0649 # ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA
-#064A # ARABIC LETTER YEH
-#064B # ARABIC FATHATAN
-#064C # ARABIC DAMMATAN
-#064D # ARABIC KASRATAN
-#064E # ARABIC FATHA
-#064F # ARABIC DAMMA
-#0650 # ARABIC KASRA
-#0651 # ARABIC SHADDA
-#0652 # ARABIC SUKUN
-#
-# Data from Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@sharif.edu>
-#
-# Select fonts based on support for presentation forms; this may
-# exclude some OpenType fonts, but the hope is those would be
-# located by a clever shaper by Unicode codepoints in any case.
-#
-# General Forms:
-#0621-063a
-#0641-064a
-# Presentations Forms:
-fe80-fefc
+# Arabic (ar)
+#
+# We are assuming that:
+# * Most fonts that claim to support an Arabic letter actually do so;
+# * Most modern text rendering software use OpenType tables, instead of
+# directly using presentation forms.
+# * Some good Arabic fonts do not support codepoints for Arabic presentation
+# forms.
+# Thus, we are switching to general forms of Arabic letters.
+#
+# General forms:
+0621-063a
+0641-064a
+# Presentations forms:
+# fe80-fefc
# fontconfig/fc-lang/fa.orth
#
# Copyright © 2002 Keith Packard
+# Copyright © 2009 Roozbeh Pournader
#
# Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
# documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that
# TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
# PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
#
-# Persian (FA)
-#
-# Data from Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@sharif.edu>
-#
-# Select fonts based on support for presentation forms; this may
-# exclude some OpenType fonts, but the hope is those would be
-# located by a clever shaper by Unicode codepoints in any case.
-#
-# General forms.
-#0621-0624
-#0626-063a
-#0641-0642
-#0644-0648
-#067e
-#0686
-#0698
-#06a9
-#06af
-#06cc
-# Presentations Forms:
-fb56-fb59
-fb7a-fb7d
-fb8a-fb8b
-fb8e-fb95
-fbfc-fbff
-fe80-fe86
-fe89-fed8
-fedd-feee
-#fef5-fef8 # These four happen very rarely
-fefb-fefc
+# Persian (fa)
+#
+# Sources:
+# * ISIRI 6219:2002, "Information Technology — Persian Information
+# Interchange and Display Mechanism, using Unicode"
+# * "Dastur-e Khat-te Fārsi", Iranian Academy of Persian Language and
+# Literature, 4th printing, December 2005, ISBN 964-7531-13-3. Available
+# at http://www.persianacademy.ir/fa/das.aspx
+#
+# We are assuming that:
+# * Most fonts that claim to support an Arabic letter actually do so;
+# * Most modern text rendering software use OpenType tables, instead of
+# directly using presentation forms.
+# * Some good Arabic fonts do not support codepoints for Arabic presentation
+# forms.
+# Thus, we are switching to general forms of Arabic letters.
+#
+# General forms:
+0621-0624
+0626-0628
+0629 # TEH MARBUTA, implicitly considered mandatory in the official orthography
+062a-063a
+0641-0642
+0644-0648
+064b # FATHATAN, considered mandatory in the official orthography
+# 064b-064d # DAMMATAN and KASRATAN, considered mandatory in the official orthography, but very rare
+# 064e-0650 # FATHA, DAMMA, and KASRA, not mandataroy in the official orthography
+# 0651 # SHADDA, considered mandatory only for legal texts
+# 0652 # SUKUN, not mandatory in the official orthography
+0654 # HAMZA ABOVE, considered mandatory in the official orthography
+# 0656 # SUBSCRIPT ALEF, not mentioned in official orthography, but sometimes used
+# 0670 # SUPERSCRIPT ALEF, not explicilty listed in the official orthography, although used in the document; not mandatory
+067e
+0686
+0698
+06a9
+06af
+06cc
+# Presentations forms:
+#fb56-fb59
+#fb7a-fb7d
+#fb8a-fb8b
+#fb8e-fb95
+#fbfc-fbff
+#fe80-fe86
+#fe89-fed8
+#fedd-feee
+##fef5-fef8 # These four happen very rarely
+#fefb-fefc
--- /dev/null
+#
+# fontconfig/fc-lang/pes.orth
+#
+# Copyright © 2009 Roozbeh Pournader
+#
+# Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
+# documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that
+# the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
+# copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
+# documentation, and that the name of Keith Packard not be used in
+# advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without
+# specific, written prior permission. Keith Packard makes no
+# representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It
+# is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
+#
+# THE AUTHOR(S) DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE,
+# INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO
+# EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR(S) BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR
+# CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE,
+# DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER
+# TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
+# PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
+#
+# Western Farsi (pes)
+#
+include fa.orth
--- /dev/null
+#
+# fontconfig/fc-lang/prs.orth
+#
+# Copyright © 2009 Roozbeh Pournader
+#
+# Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
+# documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that
+# the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
+# copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
+# documentation, and that the name of Keith Packard not be used in
+# advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without
+# specific, written prior permission. Keith Packard makes no
+# representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It
+# is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
+#
+# THE AUTHOR(S) DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE,
+# INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO
+# EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR(S) BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR
+# CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE,
+# DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER
+# TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
+# PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
+#
+# Dari/Eastern Farsi (prs)
+#
+# We assume that Afghan Persian uses the same orthography as Iranian
+# Persian, although the actual orthography is probably less strict than that
+# of the Iranian Academy of Persian Language and Literature.
+include fa.orth
# fontconfig/fc-lang/ur.orth
#
# Copyright © 2002 Keith Packard
+# Copyright © 2009 Roozbeh Pournader
#
# Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
# documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that
# TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
# PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
#
-# Urdu (UR)
+# Urdu (ur)
#
-# Data from Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@sharif.edu>
+# We are assuming that:
+# * Most fonts that claim to support an Arabic letter actually do so;
+# * Most modern text rendering software use OpenType tables, instead of
+# directly using presentation forms.
+# * Some good Arabic fonts do not support codepoints for Arabic presentation
+# forms.
+# Thus, we are switching to general forms of Arabic letters.
#
-# Select fonts based on support for presentation forms; this may
-# exclude some OpenType fonts, but the hope is those would be
-# located by a clever shaper by Unicode codepoints in any case.
-#
-# General forms.
-#0621-0624
-#0626-063a
-#0641-0642
-#0644-0648
-#0679
-#067e
-#0686
-#0688
-#0691
-#0698
-#06a9
-#06af
-#06ba
-#06be
-#06cc
-#06d2
-# Presentations Forms:
-fb56-fb59
-fb66-fb69
-fb7a-fb7d
-fb88-fb8d
-fb8e-fb95
-fb9e-fb9f
-fbfc-fbff
-fbaa-fbaf
-fe80-fe86
-fe89-fed8
-fedd-feee
-#fef5-fef8 # These four happen very rarely
-fefb-fefc
+# General forms:
+0621-0624
+0626-063a
+0641-0642
+0644-0648
+0679
+067e
+0686
+0688
+0691
+0698
+06a9
+06af
+06ba
+06be
+06cc
+06d2
+# Presentations forms:
+#fb56-fb59
+#fb66-fb69
+#fb7a-fb7d
+#fb88-fb8d
+#fb8e-fb95
+#fb9e-fb9f
+#fbfc-fbff
+#fbaa-fbaf
+#fe80-fe86
+#fe89-fed8
+#fedd-feee
+##fef5-fef8 # These four happen very rarely
+#fefb-fefc