[XeTeX] ArabXeTeX Kurdish input problem

[Christoph Unger]

Christoph Unger wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> I am trying to write some Kurdish text (Behdini dialect) using ArabXeTeX 
> 1.0, but I have a problem in that I don't seem to be able to get Unicode 
> character 0698. This is a very important character, but when I type 'j', 
> it just outputs the latin character 'j' (not even U+062C as the table in 
> the manual shows; typing 'c' typesets U+062C, as it should, so this is 
> OK). Everything else seems to work as it should. 

I am sorry to say that this is not quite so: typing 'w' gets U+06CB (as 
in Uighur, according to the table) instead of U+0648. When 'w' occurs 
wordinternally, typing 'u' could be a work-around, but for word initial 
'w' typing 'u' would add a hamza in front, which is not correct.

Is there a way that the user could tweak the input mappings?

Best,
Christoph


> Am I missing something?
> 
> Below is the test document I wrote.
> 
> Thanks in advance for all your help,
> Christoph
> 
> 
> 
> \documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{scrartcl}
> 
> % Using xelatex
> 
> \usepackage{fontspec}
> \usepackage{xunicode}
> \usepackage{xltxtra}
> \usepackage{arabxetex}
> 
> 
> 
> \setromanfont{Scheherazade}
> \newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic]{Scheherazade}
> \newfontfamily\kurdishfont[Script=Arabic]{Scheherazade}
> 
> \begin{document}
> 
> 
> 
> \begin{kurdish}
>    roja te bi xEr, tu ,cawa yI, ba^sI?
> 
>    roja te bi xEr, tu ,caua yI, ba^sI?
> 
>      j jj
> 
>    juuE avE
> 
>    cuuE avE
> 
>    axftna te ya raste
> \end{kurdish}
> 
> 
> 
> 
> \end{document}
> 
> %%% Local Variables:
> %%% mode: latex
> %%% TeX-master: t
> %%% End:
> 

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