DrawText: Arabic Unicode troubles

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Space Fractal(Posted 2008) [#1]
I have these days trying to get a right to left language support to work by request from one of my user.

I got some Arabic text, but it seen does not render Arabic alphabet correctly, because text saved in UTF8, nearly allways save as unicode range 06XX which is just the basic version of thier chars, but not any of the presentation letters.

The list on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_alphabet does only show major letters and not variours of it.

BTW I can not find a dll or code to translate the string correctly to use the Arabic Presentation Forms-A and Arabic Presentation Forms-B codepage correctly when using DrawText.

IS it a snippets arviable for both Linux and Windows (most important), so I can get these strings converted correctly?