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Arabic support for Unicode 17.0 would be appreciated #1249

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@LornaSIL

I don't know if Harfbuzz needs updating, or your support for Unicode 17.0 needs updating, but I'm not getting the proper rendering for an Arabic script character that was encoded in Unicode 17.0

This is the text: ࢏ ࢏࢏َ࢏

It should look like this (LibreOffice and Firefox):

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In ptxPrint 3.0.38 (and 3.0.9), the characters don't shape at all:

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Font Scheherazade New v4.500: https://software.sil.org/scheherazade/download/
It would be great to get this working.

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