Another Amiri font release:

Amiri 0.102 (2012-05-22)

  • New glyphs:
    • The largest feature of this release is adding Latin script support based on Crimson font, covering latin-0 to 9 code pages as well as all characters used in common Arabic romanisation schemes (not including IPA) and other common punctuation characters.
    • Beh with small v below (U+08A0).
    • Basmala symbol (U+FDFD).
  • Fixes:
    • New contextual shape for final open heh-yaa combination.
    • New contextual shape for final faa-yaa combination.
    • New contextual shape for knotted heh-yaa baree.
    • New, improved and more open hmaza wasl.
    • Larger and more readable shadda, regular and Qur’anic sukun.
    • Larger and more readable Sallallahou Alayhe Wasallam symbol (U+FDFA).
    • Improved dot placement of initial baa-like glyphs.
    • Improved dot placement of kaf-baa-alef combination.
    • Improved placement of dagger alef on regular glyphs.
    • Wider final alef with madda to avoid clash between madda and next glyphs.
    • Improved kaf-meem-alef, kaf-alef combinations at smaller sizes on screen.
    • Improve kaf-lam-final meem.
    • Avoid initial/medial kaf clash with next glyph’s dots.
    • Improved medial and final sad connecting part.
  • Kerning:
    • More efficient kerning feature using contextual positioning
    • Reduce dal/raa-kaf kerning to avoid dot clash
    • More positive kerning for raa-intial yaa.
    • Make kerning across ZWNJ work with Uniscribe.

  • Bug fixes: #1347860, #3471042, #3475146, #3509875

  • Misc.:
    • Duplicate ‘locl’ in ‘ccmp’ to work around engines not supporting the former.
    • Smaller, MTX compressed EOT files.
  • Many other subtle improvements here and there.