This is not the issue with all the arabic fonts, I can produce this bug using some fonts but not while using Nimbus fonts or Monospace (this is why you did not notice it in gedit).
If you changed the used font in gedit, you will have the same problem. Therefore is not an openoffice.org bug. I am not sure yet if it is still a Ubuntu bug (another package), these fonts are supposed to be made to work correctly. Version information: Feisty, Openoffice 2.1 -- Ooo2 breaks arabic ligature on entering diacritic https://launchpad.net/bugs/26308 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
