Georg Baum wrote:
This patch fixes bug 2927. Note that we do not have the problem with the "unknown" encoding anymore (I found out that an 8859-6 definition is provided by the same package that provides the cp1256 encoding definition: http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/language/arabic/arabi/arabi/texmf/latex/arabi/), but I still think that we should use cp1256 by default, since 8859-6 is incomplete and rarely used.
From the documentation it is clear that you are right.
This goes in tomorrow if nobody objects.
Who do you expect would object? ;-) Abdel.