Updated Arabic, Persian, and Urdu orthographies

- Arabic (ar), Persian (fa), and Urdu (ur) now use generic forms (bug #23004)
- Persian (fa) orthography updated to latest standards and orthographies
- Persian dialects Dari/Eastern Farsi (prs) and Western Farsi (pes) added

5 files changed, 161 insertions, 132 deletions

diff --git a/fc-lang/ar.orth b/fc-lang/ar.orth
index 5afef09..39fcfa0 100644
--- a/fc-lang/ar.orth
+++ b/fc-lang/ar.orth
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # fontconfig/fc-lang/ar.orth
 #
 # Copyright © 2002 Keith Packard
+# Copyright © 2009 Roozbeh Pournader
 #
 # Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
 # documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that
@@ -21,68 +22,18 @@
 # TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
 # PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 #
-# Arabic (AR)
-#
-# General forms.  Leave these out for now as most software
-# expects presentation forms.
-#
-#060C	# ARABIC COMMA
-#061B	# ARABIC SEMICOLON
-#061F	# ARABIC QUESTION MARK
-#0621	# ARABIC LETTER HAMZA
-#0622	# ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE
-#0623	# ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE
-#0624	# ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH HAMZA ABOVE
-#0625	# ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW
-#0626	# ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE
-#0627	# ARABIC LETTER ALEF
-#0628	# ARABIC LETTER BEH
-#0629	# ARABIC LETTER TEH MARBUTA
-#062A	# ARABIC LETTER TEH
-#062B	# ARABIC LETTER THEH
-#062C	# ARABIC LETTER JEEM
-#062D	# ARABIC LETTER HAH
-#062E	# ARABIC LETTER KHAH
-#062F	# ARABIC LETTER DAL
-#0630	# ARABIC LETTER THAL
-#0631	# ARABIC LETTER REH
-#0632	# ARABIC LETTER ZAIN
-#0633	# ARABIC LETTER SEEN
-#0634	# ARABIC LETTER SHEEN
-#0635	# ARABIC LETTER SAD
-#0636	# ARABIC LETTER DAD
-#0637	# ARABIC LETTER TAH
-#0638	# ARABIC LETTER ZAH
-#0639	# ARABIC LETTER AIN
-#063A	# ARABIC LETTER GHAIN
-#0640	# ARABIC TATWEEL
-#0641	# ARABIC LETTER FEH
-#0642	# ARABIC LETTER QAF
-#0643	# ARABIC LETTER KAF
-#0644	# ARABIC LETTER LAM
-#0645	# ARABIC LETTER MEEM
-#0646	# ARABIC LETTER NOON
-#0647	# ARABIC LETTER HEH
-#0648	# ARABIC LETTER WAW
-#0649	# ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA
-#064A	# ARABIC LETTER YEH
-#064B	# ARABIC FATHATAN
-#064C	# ARABIC DAMMATAN
-#064D	# ARABIC KASRATAN
-#064E	# ARABIC FATHA
-#064F	# ARABIC DAMMA
-#0650	# ARABIC KASRA
-#0651	# ARABIC SHADDA
-#0652	# ARABIC SUKUN
-#
-# Data from Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@sharif.edu>
-#
-# Select fonts based on support for presentation forms; this may
-# exclude some OpenType fonts, but the hope is those would be
-# located by a clever shaper by Unicode codepoints in any case.
-#
-# General Forms:
-#0621-063a
-#0641-064a
-# Presentations Forms:
-fe80-fefc
+# Arabic (ar)
+#
+# We are assuming that:
+# * Most fonts that claim to support an Arabic letter actually do so;
+# * Most modern text rendering software use OpenType tables, instead of
+#   directly using presentation forms.
+# * Some good Arabic fonts do not support codepoints for Arabic presentation
+#   forms.
+# Thus, we are switching to general forms of Arabic letters.
+#
+# General forms:
+0621-063a
+0641-064a
+# Presentations forms:
+# fe80-fefc
diff --git a/fc-lang/fa.orth b/fc-lang/fa.orth
index a988d61..2d9d7fa 100644
--- a/fc-lang/fa.orth
+++ b/fc-lang/fa.orth
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # fontconfig/fc-lang/fa.orth
 #
 # Copyright © 2002 Keith Packard
+# Copyright © 2009 Roozbeh Pournader
 #
 # Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
 # documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that
@@ -21,33 +22,52 @@
 # TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
 # PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 #
-# Persian (FA)
-#
-# Data from Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@sharif.edu>
-#
-# Select fonts based on support for presentation forms; this may
-# exclude some OpenType fonts, but the hope is those would be
-# located by a clever shaper by Unicode codepoints in any case.
-#
-# General forms.
-#0621-0624
-#0626-063a
-#0641-0642
-#0644-0648
-#067e
-#0686
-#0698
-#06a9
-#06af
-#06cc
-# Presentations Forms:
-fb56-fb59
-fb7a-fb7d
-fb8a-fb8b
-fb8e-fb95
-fbfc-fbff
-fe80-fe86
-fe89-fed8
-fedd-feee
-#fef5-fef8      # These four happen very rarely
-fefb-fefc
+# Persian (fa)
+#
+# Sources:
+# * ISIRI 6219:2002, "Information Technology — Persian Information
+#   Interchange and Display Mechanism, using Unicode"
+# * "Dastur-e Khat-te Fārsi", Iranian Academy of Persian Language and
+#   Literature, 4th printing, December 2005, ISBN 964-7531-13-3. Available
+#   at http://www.persianacademy.ir/fa/das.aspx
+#
+# We are assuming that:
+# * Most fonts that claim to support an Arabic letter actually do so;
+# * Most modern text rendering software use OpenType tables, instead of
+#   directly using presentation forms.
+# * Some good Arabic fonts do not support codepoints for Arabic presentation
+#   forms.
+# Thus, we are switching to general forms of Arabic letters.
+#
+# General forms:
+0621-0624
+0626-0628
+0629 # TEH MARBUTA, implicitly considered mandatory in the official orthography
+062a-063a
+0641-0642
+0644-0648
+064b # FATHATAN, considered mandatory in the official orthography
+# 064b-064d # DAMMATAN and KASRATAN, considered mandatory in the official orthography, but very rare
+# 064e-0650 # FATHA, DAMMA, and KASRA, not mandataroy in the official orthography
+# 0651 # SHADDA, considered mandatory only for legal texts
+# 0652 # SUKUN, not mandatory in the official orthography
+0654 # HAMZA ABOVE, considered mandatory in the official orthography
+# 0656 # SUBSCRIPT ALEF, not mentioned in official orthography, but sometimes used
+# 0670 # SUPERSCRIPT ALEF, not explicilty listed in the official orthography, although used in the document; not mandatory
+067e
+0686
+0698
+06a9
+06af
+06cc
+# Presentations forms:
+#fb56-fb59
+#fb7a-fb7d
+#fb8a-fb8b
+#fb8e-fb95
+#fbfc-fbff
+#fe80-fe86
+#fe89-fed8
+#fedd-feee
+##fef5-fef8      # These four happen very rarely
+#fefb-fefc
diff --git a/fc-lang/pes.orth b/fc-lang/pes.orth
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..81b3910
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fc-lang/pes.orth
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+#
+# fontconfig/fc-lang/pes.orth
+#
+# Copyright © 2009 Roozbeh Pournader
+#
+# Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
+# documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that
+# the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
+# copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
+# documentation, and that the name of Keith Packard not be used in
+# advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without
+# specific, written prior permission.  Keith Packard makes no
+# representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose.  It
+# is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
+#
+# THE AUTHOR(S) DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE,
+# INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO
+# EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR(S) BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR
+# CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE,
+# DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER
+# TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
+# PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
+#
+# Western Farsi (pes)
+#
+include fa.orth
diff --git a/fc-lang/prs.orth b/fc-lang/prs.orth
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..98cf654
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fc-lang/prs.orth
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+#
+# fontconfig/fc-lang/prs.orth
+#
+# Copyright © 2009 Roozbeh Pournader
+#
+# Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
+# documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that
+# the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that
+# copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting
+# documentation, and that the name of Keith Packard not be used in
+# advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without
+# specific, written prior permission.  Keith Packard makes no
+# representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose.  It
+# is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty.
+#
+# THE AUTHOR(S) DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE,
+# INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS, IN NO
+# EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR(S) BE LIABLE FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR
+# CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE,
+# DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER
+# TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
+# PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
+#
+# Dari/Eastern Farsi (prs)
+#
+# We assume that Afghan Persian uses the same orthography as Iranian
+# Persian, although the actual orthography is probably less strict than that
+# of the Iranian Academy of Persian Language and Literature.
+include fa.orth
diff --git a/fc-lang/ur.orth b/fc-lang/ur.orth
index 767da03..d9b944a 100644
--- a/fc-lang/ur.orth
+++ b/fc-lang/ur.orth
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 # fontconfig/fc-lang/ur.orth
 #
 # Copyright © 2002 Keith Packard
+# Copyright © 2009 Roozbeh Pournader
 #
 # Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its
 # documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that
@@ -21,42 +22,44 @@
 # TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
 # PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 #
-# Urdu (UR)
+# Urdu (ur)
 #
-# Data from Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh@sharif.edu>
+# We are assuming that:
+# * Most fonts that claim to support an Arabic letter actually do so;
+# * Most modern text rendering software use OpenType tables, instead of
+#   directly using presentation forms.
+# * Some good Arabic fonts do not support codepoints for Arabic presentation
+#   forms.
+# Thus, we are switching to general forms of Arabic letters.
 #
-# Select fonts based on support for presentation forms; this may
-# exclude some OpenType fonts, but the hope is those would be
-# located by a clever shaper by Unicode codepoints in any case.
-#
-# General forms.
-#0621-0624
-#0626-063a
-#0641-0642
-#0644-0648
-#0679
-#067e
-#0686
-#0688
-#0691
-#0698
-#06a9
-#06af
-#06ba
-#06be
-#06cc
-#06d2
-# Presentations Forms:
-fb56-fb59
-fb66-fb69
-fb7a-fb7d
-fb88-fb8d
-fb8e-fb95
-fb9e-fb9f
-fbfc-fbff
-fbaa-fbaf
-fe80-fe86
-fe89-fed8
-fedd-feee
-#fef5-fef8      # These four happen very rarely
-fefb-fefc
+# General forms:
+0621-0624
+0626-063a
+0641-0642
+0644-0648
+0679
+067e
+0686
+0688
+0691
+0698
+06a9
+06af
+06ba
+06be
+06cc
+06d2
+# Presentations forms:
+#fb56-fb59
+#fb66-fb69
+#fb7a-fb7d
+#fb88-fb8d
+#fb8e-fb95
+#fb9e-fb9f
+#fbfc-fbff
+#fbaa-fbaf
+#fe80-fe86
+#fe89-fed8
+#fedd-feee
+##fef5-fef8      # These four happen very rarely
+#fefb-fefc