Riddell, I tested your .deb files and now arabic displays properly on all kde apps tested.
Regarding why you see something different in your stock Kubuntu, I may help explain it if I can see a screenshot of how it looks to you and which font you used but I guess you don't care a lot about this ;) -- Arabic support severely broken https://launchpad.net/bugs/11753 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs