Arabic letter heh (ه) is rendered incorrectly when using the Calibri font

Question

When I type the word هذه into Microsoft Word 2010 using the Calibri font version 6.18, the word is rendered like in هذهذ (without the trailing ذ), which means that the last letter has the incorrect form.

• Using any font other than Calibri works fine.
• Using any other application than Microsoft Word 2010 works fine. I tried LibreOffice, Microsoft WordPad, Google Chrome, Microsoft Word 2016.
• This also affects any text where ه appears as an isolated letter, such as in ه ه ه ه.

What could possibly lead to this situation?

Is there any way to trick Microsoft Word into rendering the word correctly?

Answer 1

In the Unicode charts, I found U+FBA6, which is the letter heh, isolated form. Now I have the word هذﮦ (the last letter is U+FBA6) from which I can use the letter via copy and paste.

The downside is that the above only works if the ه appears on its own, without vowels. Therefore rendering هذه works, but هَذِهِ doesn't. In the latter case, the vowel is placed too far to the left.

Answer 2

I have a solution for that ,if the letter ه.

After typing it appears, immediately press shift and j ( corresponds to (-) in Arabic) and the result is هـ. I know tis because I’m an Arabic language user (English is my second language).

The characteristics of the letter ه in Arabic changes its form according to its place in a word, هـ is used when it is used in first place letter in a word while ه is used in last place letter in a word, hence the difference between ه and هـ.