Arabic characters not shown in Email [released]

Is the email content HTML formatted or plaintext?

TBH I'm not sure about the original mail, but I forwarded it to myself as plain text and the problem persists.

There is an issue with the font.

There is Droid sana Arabic already which is grouped with all the various droid sans fonts under one family "Droid Sans"

The problem is that silica components hardcode another font for their usage. I don't know how the font substitution works but if I install another font or edit the fontconfig configuration file to remove the font family assignment for droid sans Arabic then arabic shows fine.

I don't really know what the proper solution would be

@MSameer

Kindly, could you please explain to us what did you exactly modify? Or which font did you install on your device, and where did you place the file?

That would be really helpful and much appreciated.

I edited /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/55-droid-sans.conf And commented out this part: <match target="scan"> <test name="family"> <string>Droid Sans Arabic</string> </test> <edit name="family"> <string>Droid Sans</string> </edit> <edit name="fullname"> <string>Droid Sans</string> </edit> <edit name="fontversion"> <int>5</int> </edit> </match>

OR: You can also copy any ttf font under /usr/share/fonts/ and run fc-cache -f I tried with Amiri font from http://www.amirifont.org/ but any ttf font should work

A reboot is required in all cases.

Also note that this is not the proper solution as I do not yet know what the proper solution is