Enabling "curs" font feature doesn't seem to enable it, in the attached example I enabled "curs" for the first line and disabled it for the second one, but it doesn't seem to get applied (the same output in the 2 lines). The font is here http://www.khaledhosny.org/files/pub/SimplifiedNaskh/SimplifiedNaskh.ttf -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localizer and member of Arabeyes.org team