How to change default font for Persian language
you can always request packages but in general most dirstros are using noto font to cover all kinds of fonts it's same in our case
Girtablulu But when it's not good we should improve that right?
How should I request it?
Girtablulu What the heck, I should register dev account to request?!
shouldn't be an easier way to feedback to improve the distro?
I got Vasir fonts from Arch and tested them in Solus Plasma. The whole Plasma UI is set to use Vasir Regular as default system font. Kate editor is also set to use Vasir Regular as default font. English and Persian text looks equally well with Vasir.
As I don't speak Persian, probably I'm missing something else.
Mahyar no, we maybe have to talk with you or need additional information and we are talking here about an account and not your first born
just
I haven't use Plasma but in Gnome - Budgie - Pantheon & Cinnamon all use an ugly font for Persian and everything looks ugly
I can show the difference, I have taken two screenshots from same webpage
1: showing with default system font
2: with a browser extension named FontARA showing the webpage with Vazir font
You could see the difference
but because it's not a system font all-around a the OS looking bad & hard for reading for Persian speaking people
PS: I don't know the "Vasir" font you talked about its the same as "Vazir" font that i mentioned
PS2: Just because your not familiar with the Persian language it's not Arabic Language even alphabet it's different.
Thank you for your time
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Girtablulu OK I did that
https://dev.getsol.us/T8856
Thanks
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Sorry, but I cannot see big differences between two images in your reply. I see that many characters have different form (shape), but the font itself is rendered - drawn - well for me, in both images. Probably the difference in character form is what you're calling "ugly".
I made another example with Vazir font (not Vasir, it's my error). This example is made in Solus Gnome, with Geany text editor.
Vazir Regular 22 pt is set as default system-wide font in Gnome. So Geany interface on the picture - i.e., titlebar, menubar, tab title, line numbers, statusbar - uses Vazir.
The whole text inside Geany is typed in using Vazir Regular 22 pt as well. I added to Gnome two keyboard layouts - Arabic and Persian. Keyboard layout is the only thing which changes inside Geany. It goes from English (US) to Arabic, then to Persian.
Everything on the picture - Geany interface and the text inside it - uses only Vazir font. Arabic and Persian characters (letters?) have slightly different form (or shape), which is probably looks ugly for you. But the font itself is rendered well, for my taste, in all three languages.
I realize that not being Arabic or Persian carrier I can't figure out your needs completely. Just tried to demonstrate that Vazir looks technically well in Plasma and Gnome in all three languages at the same time. There's nothing ugly in them.
Edit: Typo.