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June 3, 2018

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  • June 3, 2018
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The latest adobe apps that support variable fonts doesn't support Arabic as the letters takes the isolated form without the basic Arabic features like initial, medial and final and so on  

Is there any intention to support Arabic in the future ?



Here is the link of the original post I posted in adobe forums

https://forums.adobe.com/message/10427582

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    David Mohr
    David Mohr
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    July 19, 2018
    Howdy Abody,

    When we first released variable fonts, there were none that had Arabic glyphs in them.  Now, there are a few and the results are mixed -- on Mac, Markazi works just fine, but not so always on Windows.  Noto Sans Arabic is problematic on both platforms.  If you have additional variable fonts with Arabic glyphs, please share and I'll test them too.  I have opened a bug on this issue and hopefully we'll get this resolved soon.

    Thanks,
    David
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    abodyammar
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    June 3, 2018

    The latest adobe apps that support variable fonts doesn't support Arabic as the letters takes the isolated form without the basic Arabic features like initial, medial and final and so on  

    Is there any intention to support Arabic in the future ?

    c.pfaffenbichler
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    c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    June 3, 2018
    The latest adobe apps that support variable fonts doesn't support Arabic as the letters takes the isolated form without the basic Arabic features like initial, medial and final and so on 

    So Arabic variable fonts are available?

    Who produced them?

    Maybe you should also post over at

    Type & Typography

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    abodyammar
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    June 4, 2018

    There is not many Arabic fonts, the font i'm talking about is google's noto sans Arabic Variable it's from github

    and also I tested myself some other (wrok in progress fonts and I got the same result)

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