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Roboto medium font is not respected for Arabic

Project Member Reported by gambard@chromium.org, Mar 6 2017

Issue description

Roboto does not have characters for Arabic languages. It seems that the fallback font used in this case does not take care of the style used, i.e. when using medium font, it is displayed as regular font.

Using MDCTypography with default font, the Arabic language is displayed correctly.

I have attached a screenshot of Roboto and of default font (using medium font in both case).

I have opened an issue in MDF: https://github.com/material-foundation/material-roboto-font-loader-ios/issues/12
 
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Blocking: 698383
Our fix should probably be to drop Roboto and use SanFran. Does it behave any better here?
I tried with the default font from MDCTypography. I am not sure of the one it uses.

But with this font, as you can see in the first screenshot, the Arabic characters look medium.

Comment 4 by pkl@chromium.org, Mar 6 2017

Components: UI>Browser
Labels: M-59
Owner: lpromero@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)
This may have nothing to do with reading list.
Labels: -M-59
Components: -UI>Browser UI>Internationalization
Issue 698383 has been merged into this issue.
Mardini, Pink: is moving to San Francisco font tracked anywhere?
Cc: pkl@chromium.org justincohen@chromium.org
Not that I'm aware of. 

Adding Justin and Peter who might know. 
Cc: khalilcader@chromium.org pschaffner@chromium.org
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=694948 was the bug we were using for the infrastructure to do it, but i don't think we ever created a specific bug to switch. Bijou will use SF, but I'm not sure how we're going to stage things.

Adding Pete and Khalil to the discussion. 


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