Request better Arabic font for Ubuntu 20.04

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The discussed changes have been uploaded to groovy with language-selector 0.206.

Installation

If you are on groovy, you can just upgrade your packages:

sudo apt update
sudo apt full-upgrade

That should install language-selector-common 0.206 and language-selector-gnome 0.206.

If you are on Ubuntu 20.04, you can:

Setup

  • Open the Language Support tool.

  • If you haven’t installed Arabic before:

    1. click the Install / Remove Languages… button

    2. install Arabic

  • If you already have installed Arabic:

    1. find that you are prompted to install fonts-noto-core and fonts-noto-ui-core

    2. accept by clicking the Install button

  • Open Settings -> Region & Language

  • Select Arabic as the Language

  • Log out and log in again

Look around

Arabic contents should now normally be shown using Noto fonts.

  • Test various apps, browse some Arabic web pages, and decide if you like the rendering of Arabic text.

  • Give us feedback. Are you satisfied with the Arabic rendering? Let us also know about possible specific issues you observe.

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