• Re: Default Arabic Font change proposal

    From Wouter Verhelst@21:1/5 to Mohamed Aboelenein on Sat Sep 28 14:20:01 2024
    XPost: linux.debian.vote

    Hi Mohamed,

    On Mon, Sep 02, 2024 at 12:41:54PM +0200, Mohamed Aboelenein wrote:
    Hello,
    I am not exactly sure if this is the right way to do it. If not, I hope
    you notify me.

    This isn't the right forum, indeed. The debian-vote mailinglist is meant
    for votes by Debian Developers as procedurally required from time to
    time by our constitution; it is not for making suggestions to the
    distribution.

    The debian-devel mailinglist is probably more appropriate, although
    filing a bug on the relevant package (not sure which one that would be, unfortunately) would be even more so.

    I've added a Cc and set mail-followup-to there to indicate that replies
    should be directed there only. Please adhere to that suggestion ;-)

    I wanted to raise the issue with the default Arabic font that is used.
    I don't know if it was selected at random or if there is a reason. It's
    a weird font that's not usually used and it's not easy on the eyes (not
    as aesthetically appealing as well).

    My suspicion is the former rather than the latter. I don't know if we
    have a lot of Arabic-speaking contributors (possibly not), so if you
    think this situation can be improved, I'm sure that will be welcomed.

    -devel: where and how do we select default fonts? Personally I have no
    clue :)

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    I will have a Tin-Actinium-Potassium mixture, thanks.

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