Per comment 1 - 2, it sounds like things are approximately working-as-intended here, except that the labeling is perhaps confusing from a user's perspective since it's non-obvious to users that Farsi is under the category of Arabic, per this suggestion from the reporter: > Perhaps the menu of the font settings should say "Arabic / Persian" or "Arabic / Farsi" (as this is far from being obvious, in particular with romanized Persian text). (Side note: I'm admittedly unfamiliar with the details here, but I'll just note that one could make a similar argument that English-speaking users might similarly be confused by seeing "Latin" in this menu; I'm not sure people colloquially think if English script as being in the "Latin" category.) I suspect the terms in this picker are optimized for being concise, abstract, and technical font-designer terms-of-art, not necessarily optimized for being user-readable. (That's perhaps not-great from a user's perspective, but this is at least buried in an "Advanced" pane which is probably why it's somewhat technical.) In any case, it looks like the string in question is here: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/049f3e8d328c4b6bac9bf4b27309541a2e913686/browser/locales/en-US/browser/preferences/fonts.ftl#17 If we were to make a change here, it would be to that^ line I suppose.
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Per comment 1 - 2, it sounds like things are approximately working-as-intended here, except that the labeling is perhaps confusing from a user's perspective since it's non-obvious to users that Farsi is under the category of Arabic, per this suggestion from the reporter: > Perhaps the menu of the font settings should say "Arabic / Persian" or "Arabic / Farsi" (as this is far from being obvious, in particular with romanized Persian text). (Side note: I'm admittedly unfamiliar with the language-specific details here, but I'll just note that one could make a similar argument that English-speaking users might similarly be confused by seeing "Latin" in this menu; I'm not sure people colloquially think if English script as being in the "Latin" category.) I suspect the terms in this picker are optimized for being concise, abstract, and technical font-designer terms-of-art, not necessarily optimized for being user-readable. (That's perhaps not-great from a user's perspective, but this is at least buried in an "Advanced" pane which is probably why it's somewhat technical.) In any case, it looks like the string in question is here: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/049f3e8d328c4b6bac9bf4b27309541a2e913686/browser/locales/en-US/browser/preferences/fonts.ftl#17 If we were to make a change here, it would be to that^ line I suppose.
Per comment 1 - 2, it sounds like things are approximately working-as-intended here, except that the labeling is perhaps confusing from a user's perspective since it's non-obvious to users that Farsi is under the category of Arabic, per this suggestion from the reporter: > Perhaps the menu of the font settings should say "Arabic / Persian" or "Arabic / Farsi" (as this is far from being obvious, in particular with romanized Persian text). (Side note: I'm admittedly unfamiliar with the language-specific details here, but I'll just note that one could make a similar argument that English-speaking users might similarly be confused by seeing "Latin" in this menu; I'm not sure regular users would colloquially think of English script as being in the "Latin" category, even though that's the technical term for the writing system that English uses.) I suspect the terms in this picker are optimized for being concise, abstract, and technical font-designer terms-of-art, not necessarily optimized for being user-readable. (That's perhaps not-great from a user's perspective, but this is at least buried in an "Advanced" pane which is probably why it's somewhat technical.) In any case, it looks like the string in question is here: https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/049f3e8d328c4b6bac9bf4b27309541a2e913686/browser/locales/en-US/browser/preferences/fonts.ftl#17 If we were to make a change here, it would be to that^ line I suppose.