[XeTeX] Bug in XeTeX 0.997?

[Youssef Jabri]

Hi Jonathan, Hi everybody,

I am preparing a new version of Arabi that works with both eTeX and  
XeTeX, and things work quite well so far.
But I noticed that the following code works with eTeX,  XeTeX 0.996  
but fails with version 0.997

\documentclass{article}
%utf8 is a part of the ArabTeX package which handles unicode by its  
own, it's earlier than the utf8 code used by the inputenc package.
\usepackage{arabtex,utf8}
\begin{document}
bla bla
\end{document}

I am using the mac intel binary from
  http://minimals.contextgarden.net/current/bin/xetex/

Youssef Jabri