Source Arabic font from CDN, newer repo #5053
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As discussed in #4893, Google stopped updating our go-to fonts repo https://github.com/notofonts/noto-fonts two years ago. They now distribute multilingual Noto through individual repos, the jsdelivr CDN, and GitHub Pages.
In #5052 we added a Python script to download fonts. For now I suggest a separate list of fonts to download from the new sources (
NEWER_REPO
). As written this would work for most fonts, though there are exceptions (such as the UI fonts and NotoSansKayahLi) which were handled in #4893.I'd like to update Arabic first here to fix a known issue in Kurdish map labels. I checked with a maintainer in the Noto Arabic repo, and "Arabic UI" is no longer updated; we also want to switch over to the standard font.