Hi there,
I tried to post on the same subject in the past, but it I didn't get any working suggestion/consideration back. I'm running version 0.46 on Mac OS X 10.4.11. When I write Arabic into the text tool I get a disconnected Arabic letters. It happens also if I copy a connected Arabic letters from outside Inkscape: when I copy the connected text it gets disconnected.
I had a version that worked perfectly. I don't remember which one was it. But when I try to examine the past versions one by one, no one seems to work. It seems that there is something in the system that changed that is affecting the Arabic in Inkscape. I tried rolling back to a previous version of X Server and didn't work too.
Any clues??? I rely on Inkscape very much.
Thanks in advance guys!
Best, Boutros