Nick Doiron

Two ideas, which would both be unusual for the repo so IDK what to suggest: - switch to IBM Plex Sans Arabic, which has lesser line height, renders ڵا correctly,...

OK, I had a chance to dig into the Noto Arabic .glyph files, and I have patched the UI font which we've been using. This affects at least four ligatures...

- This change can't easily be merged back into the Noto repo because it would need to support condensed/semibold variable fonts - This would affect about 1,000 place names currently...

OSM has added vector layers which use `mapbox/mapbox-gl-rtl-text` to do text-shaping on Arabic, unfortunately there is no single Unicode glyph for ڵا so it is still unsupported. I'm open to...

- I proposed a fix in https://github.com/mapbox/mapbox-gl-language/pull/67 - If Mapbox assigns someone to this - the dependency TinySDF was recently updated to support rendering Traditional and Simplified Chinese characters in...