On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 7:17 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> Sergei, could you please try invoking Emacs with the
> `-xrm Emacs.fontBackend:gdi' command-line argument, and see if the
> problem persists with the GDI backend?  That's assuming that GDI at
> all supports Arabic shaping; I don't know enough about this to tell,
> sorry.

I have just tried this, but it totally messes up the text, as you can
see from screenshot #5 here attached.