[XeTeX] arabic diacritics breaking words in Linux xelatex

[heer]

Kamal,

 	I'm using Tex Live 2013 on Ubuntu 14.04 and your file works 
perfectly.  All the letters are properly connected.

Nicholas

On Thu, 12 Feb 2015, Kamal Abdali wrote:

> Normally any letter that gets joined to the next letter in a word does so
> whether or not it bears a diacritic. But Tex Live 2013 on SUSE Linux is
> causing such a letter to be printed in its independent rather than connected
> form when there is a diacritic on it. This is my first attempt to use xetex
> on a Linux machine to process a document in the Arabic script. I have never
> seen such an error on Windows or MacOS.
> 
> If this forum is not the right place to report the problem, perhaps some
> member can kindly direct me to the proper place. An example is the following:
> =========
> %xelatex
> 
> \documentclass{minimal}
> 
> \usepackage{fontspec,bidi}
> 
> \newfontfamily\a[Script=Arabic]{Amiri}
> 
> \begin{document}
> 
> \setRTL
> 
> \a
> 
> قلم قَلَم قلَم قندیل قِندِیل قلوب قُلُوب قُلوب
> 
> \end{document}
> 
> ========
> The TeX output is equivalent to:
> ========
> قلم  قَ لَ م   قلَ م  قندیل  قِ ندِیل  قلوب  قُ لُ وب  قُ لوب
> ========
> 
> Kamal Abdali
> 
>