[Pkg-fonts-devel] Bug#1074447: fonts-noto-core: Two of the digits of Noto Naskh Arabic family for Persian are broken

[Ebrahim Byagowi]

Package: fonts-noto-core
Version: 20201225-2
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: ebraminio at gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

I was surfing the web as a regular user and learnt the bug I reported on
2021 in https://github.com/notofonts/arabic/issues/27 now is now happening
on
a new installations of Debian and Ubuntu.

First I suspected perhaps there is a regression on the upstream but then
learnt this
has happened because Debian has updated to 2020 version of the fonts which
have
defective versions of the fonts.

Characters that are broken on the version are,
* Unicode Character 'EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT FOUR' (U+06F4)
* Unicode Character 'EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT SEVEN' (U+06F7)

Which are highly used characters for Persian and as can be seen on the
upstream
link they are fixed after the report for a number of Noto Naskh Arabic
related
fonts after the report.

I wish somehow you can update the fonts or backport the fix as this is one
high use character for Persian and I even made Persian Wikipedia to avoid
use
of the font on the titles just because of the issue and I guess there are
some other
users who are seeing the issue and are clueless about the reason.

I've checked that the defected font is in fonts-noto-core but apparently
there are variants of the Noto Naskh Arabic on other packages also which
need the fix also.

Thanks.

-- Package-specific info:
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
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Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name               Version          Architecture Description
+++-==================-================-============-=====================================================
ii  fontconfig         2.15.0-1.1       amd64        generic font
configuration library - support binaries
ii  libfreetype6:amd64 2.13.2+dfsg-1+b4 amd64        FreeType 2 font
engine, shared library files
ii  libfreetype6:i386  2.13.2+dfsg-1+b4 i386         FreeType 2 font
engine, shared library files
ii  libxft2:amd64      2.3.6-1+b1       amd64        FreeType-based font
drawing library for X

-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 6.7.12-amd64 (SMP w/20 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=C.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=C.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages fonts-noto-core depends on:
ii  fonts-noto-mono  20201225-2

fonts-noto-core recommends no packages.

fonts-noto-core suggests no packages.

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