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<p class="MsoNormal">Hello!<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">In my current project I use XeLaTeX to typeset PDF files from texts in different languages held in a separate database.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">(This is done with a generator that is language-unaware, generating lines like<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">\long\def\msgtext{</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">ÚØá</span><span lang="EN-US">
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Ýí</span><span lang="EN-US">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Into a .inc file and a manually written, language dependent, frame document that defines \msgtext{}<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">I typeset a (mostly) Arabic document using XeLaTeX and \usepackage{arabxetex}[utf]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Arabxetex supports encoding Arabic in ASCII, and this interferes with the fact, that our texts have latin characters, like English abbreviations, location IDs and such.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">The documented solution would be enclosing these latin characters which are to be typeset verbally into \text{LR}, which is rather hard if the text comes from a database.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Does anybody how to switch off arabxetex’s ASCII-to-arabic conversion completely?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Or is there a package that supports Arabic (with Arabic typographic conventions) but made for pure Unicode sources?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">With best regards<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Hartmut Niemann<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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