Scheherazade
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- Scheherazade, named after the heroine of the classic Arabian Nights tale, is designed in a similar style to traditional typefaces such as Monotype Naskh, extended to cover the full Unicode Arabic repertoire[1].
Scherazade is an state-of-the-art Arabic font which supports almost all glyphs used in Uthman Taha Mushaf, as well as Urdu, Kurdi, Pashto and Persian special characters. This font was made available under SIL Open Font License as of 2007-06-22 in order to[2]:
- stimulate worldwide development of collaborative font projects, to support the font creation efforts of academic and linguistic communities, and to provide a free and open framework in which fonts may be shared and improved in partnership with others.
Zekr Linux (Debian) package depends on ttf-sil-scheherazade package, since this is a nice-looking, lite font for Quran text rendering (unlike me_quran which is not much lite for rendering engines). This font is approved to be put on Ubuntu Universe and bundled in the next version of Ubuntu (Gutsy).
