1) Can anyone recommend a screenfont (Linux/X11) which has glyphs for the points (FATHA, etc.) --- the font I'm currently using just shows a box... Install "msttcorefonts" of microsoft fonts. 2) The current Arabic keymap lib/kbd/arabic.kmap doesn't provide the points, as far as I can see. Is this because it follows a standard layout, but the standard doesn't provide them? Is there a standard layout which we could follow which would allow us to add these? Yes definitely there is a standard keymap for arabic and I will look for it, as well as one for Farsi.
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