When fop renders Arabic, it uses isolated Arabic forms instead of converting
them to the proper presentation forms (initial, medial, final).  In contrast,
xmlroff using the Cairo rendering engine renders these forms correctly.

Here is a small xml-fo file:

        <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><fo:root 
xmlns:fo="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Format";><fo:layout-master-set><fo:simple-page-master
 page-height="11in" page-width="8.5in" margin-bottom="1in" margin-top="1in" 
margin-right="1in" margin-left="1.5in" master-name="SudaPage"><fo:region-body 
margin-bottom="0in" margin-top="0in" margin-right="0in" 
margin-left="0in"/><fo:region-before extent="0.0in"/><fo:region-after 
extent="0.0in"/><fo:region-start extent="0in"/><fo:region-end 
extent="0in"/></fo:simple-page-master></fo:layout-master-set><fo:page-sequence 
master-reference="SudaPage"><fo:static-content 
flow-name="xsl-footnote-separator"><fo:block><fo:leader rule-thickness="0.5pt" 
rule-style="solid" leader-length="20%" 
leader-pattern="rule"/></fo:block></fo:static-content>
        <fo:flow flow-name="xsl-region-body">
                <fo:block font-family="FreeSerif" margin-top=".2in" 
margin-left=".5in">
                        [1] Some Arabic: مسر now some Hebrew: שמו [2] that's all
                </fo:block>
        </fo:flow></fo:page-sequence></fo:root>

I attach the PDF that fop creates.  It has poorly rendered Arabic.  It also has
a bidi problem, but that is not the point here.

Raphael

Attachment: mini.pdf
Description: Adobe PDF document

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