Issue with arabic Kurdish alphabet

[Mariofis]

Dear Sir,

there is an issue with the kurdish arabic letter h.

when you write bih the result should be بھ. The result with arabxetex is the single letter b and h; so it is not combining.
Kurdisch.pdf

\documentclass[a4paper,12pt,twoside]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\fontspec[Mapping=tex-text]{Amiri}
\setmainfont{Amiri}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{german}
\usepackage{arabxetex}
\newfontfamily\kurdishfont[Script=Arabic, Scale=1.1]{Amiri}

\begin{document}

\begin{kurdish}[novoc]

bih{}, cih

\end{kurdish}

\end{document}

[fc7]

Thanks for reporting this. I had a quick look at the mapping rules for Kurdish and believe it is caused by:

h	  > U+200C U+06BE ; h always initial form

which seems to have been mistakenly carried over from the rules for Urdu. I am slightly speculating though, as this was written almost 20 years ago. It may take some time until I publish a new version. In the meantime, if you feel brave, you can modify the file arabtex-kurdish.map yourself and compile it to a .tec file with the TECkit utility.

A workaround would be to use e instead of h (which might actually have been the original ArabTeX convention for Kurdish).

[Mariofis]

line 222 und 223 should be:

h h > U+06BE U+0651 ;;SHADDA
h > U+06BE

U+200C has been mistakenly been added

I corrected the map und I use the corrected .tec file on my system. Works fine