Re: address@hidden: False Info on FreeType OpenType page]

[David Turner]

> 
> Dear Sir,
> 
> It was very nice to see OpenType support for FreeType.
> 
> When I was reading the web page, I found the following paragraph:
> 
>   Here is an image showing a string of Farsi text, rendered as a sucession
>   of individual glyphs. Note that Farsi is a derivative of Arabic, it is
>   thus written right-to-left, but with an oblique baseline on each word.
> 
> Since Farsi is an Indo-European language and not a derivative of Arabic
> which is a semitic language, (but only the Farsi script is a derivative of
> Arabic language), and also the text used in the example is an Arabic text
> written in Nastaliq style only (which is used not only in Iran for
> Persian/Farsi, but also in Afghanistan and Pakistan for Pashto, Urdu,
> etc.) I recommend to change the above paragraph into this:
> 
>   Here is an image showing a string of Arabic text written in Nastaliq
>   style, rendered as a sucession of individual glyphs. Note that Nastaliq
>   is a writing style of the Arabic script, it is thus written
>   right-to-left, but with an oblique baseline on each word.
>

Thanks a lot, we have modified our web site according to your recommendation.
We're sorry for the mistake we've made..

> I can provide more comments on this issue if needed, since I'm a speaker
> of Farsi, and well familiar with Nastaliq and Arabic.
>
Actually, we would like to know if you know any good resource on the Internet
that explains in details the differences between the various Arabic &
Indo-European scripts and languages (to english-speaking surfers, of course).
We'd like to add links to them to our web site, as we believe it would benefit
_a lot_ to all developers interested in digital type technology.

Sadly, we haven't much time to look at this kind of sites ourselves. We're
also looking for the same kind of information for other scripts of course..

Or maybe you could write a few web pages for inclusion on our site (our one
of your own that we'd be happy to link to..)

Thanks,

- David Turner