README Scheherazade ======================== Thank you for your interest in the Scheherazade font. We hope you find it useful! Scheherazade supports most of the Unicode 8.0 Arabic character repertoire (excluding the Arabic Presentation Forms blocks, which are not recommended for normal use). 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. Scheherazade is released under the SIL Open Font License. Scheherazade is a trademark of SIL International. See the OFL and OFL-FAQ for details of the SIL Open Font License. See the FONTLOG for information on this and previous releases. 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. TIPS ==== 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. 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. 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: 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. CONTACT ======== For more information please visit the Scheherazade page on SIL International's Computers and Writing systems website: http://scripts.sil.org/Scheherazade Support through the website: http://scripts.sil.org/Support