| README |
| Scheherazade |
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| Thank you for your interest in the Scheherazade font. |
| We hope you find it useful! |
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| Scheherazade supports most of the Unicode 8.0 Arabic character |
| repertoire (excluding the Arabic Presentation Forms blocks, which are not |
| recommended for normal use). |
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| Font smarts are implemented using OpenType and Graphite technologies. |
| A number of glyph variations are accessible through font features |
| available via both OpenType and Graphite technologies. |
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| Scheherazade is released under the SIL Open Font License. |
| Scheherazade is a trademark of SIL International. |
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| See the OFL and OFL-FAQ for details of the SIL Open Font License. |
| See the FONTLOG for information on this and previous releases. |
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| For further information about this font, including Unicode ranges |
| supported, Graphite and OpenType font features and how to use them, |
| and licensing, please see the documentation on the website |
| (http://scripts.sil.org/Scheherazade) or in the documentation |
| subfolder of this font package. |
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| TIPS |
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| As this font is distributed at no cost, we are unable to provide a |
| commercial level of personal technical support. The font has, however, |
| been through some testing on various platforms to be sure it works in most |
| situations. In particular, it has been tested and shown to work on Windows 7 |
| and Windows 8. Graphite capabilities have been tested on Graphite-supported |
| platforms. |
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| If you do find a problem, please do report it through the website: |
| http://scripts.sil.org/Support. |
| We can't guarantee any direct response, but will try to fix reported bugs in |
| future versions. |
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| Many problems can be solved, or at least explained, through an understanding |
| of the encoding and use of the fonts. Here are some basic hints: |
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| Encoding: |
| The fonts are encoded according to Unicode, so your application must support |
| Unicode text in order to access letters. Most Windows applications provide |
| basic Unicode support. For Arabic text, your application must be able to |
| handle Right to Left text as well as the initial, medial, final forms of each |
| Arabic letter. You will also need some way of entering Unicode text into your |
| document. |
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| Keyboarding: |
| This font does not include any keyboarding helps or utilities. You may use the |
| built-in keyboards of the operating system. You may also need to install an |
| appropriate keyboard and input method for the characters of the language you |
| wish to use. If you want to enter characters that are not supported by any |
| system keyboard, the Keyman program (www.tavultesoft.com) can be helpful |
| on Windows systems. Also available for Windows is MSKLC |
| (http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx). |
| For other platforms, KMFL (http://kmfl.sourceforge.net/), |
| XKB (http://www.x.org/wiki/XKB) or Ukelele (http://scripts.sil.org/ukelele) |
| can be helpful. |
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| If you want to enter characters that are not supported by any system |
| keyboard, and to access the full Unicode range, you might try charmap.exe |
| on Windows or, on Ubuntu or similar software, gucharmap or kcharselect. |
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| Another method of entering some symbols is provided by a few applications such |
| as Adobe InDesign or LibreOffice.org. They can display a glyph palette or input |
| dialog that shows all the glyphs (symbols) in a font and allow you to enter |
| them by clicking on the glyph you want. |
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| Rendering: |
| This font is designed to work with any of two advanced font technologies, |
| Graphite or OpenType. To take advantage of the advanced typographic |
| capabilities of this font, you must be using applications that provide an |
| adequate level of support for Graphite or OpenType. |
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| CONTACT |
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| For more information please visit the Scheherazade page on SIL International's |
| Computers and Writing systems website: http://scripts.sil.org/Scheherazade |
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| Support through the website: http://scripts.sil.org/Support |
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