. The Mishafi font from Diwan: http://www.diwan.com/mishafi/main.htm
...has over 3000 glyphs and is designed for correct display of the Quran. Presently, it is only correctly supported by Diwan's software applications. This suggests that your question about the issue could be answered that it may be both a font issue and an operating system issue, as well as an encoding issue like Yung-Fong Tang has pointed out. There are many fine Arabic script font developers working on OpenType Arabic fonts now, and we should see an increase in the number and quality of Arabic OpenType fonts in the future. Meanwhile, one approach could be to continue using the existing graphic format in order to provide proper and elegant display while adding plain text Arabic to each graphic page so that searching and indexing will work. U+0644-U+0623 gives your figure 3 on this system U+0644-U+0654-U+0627 breaks ligation U+0644-U+0627-U+0654 gives ligature but no hamza Still, I think Yung-Fong Tang is right about using U+0654 instead of U+0621. Best regards, James Kass .
