>> I tried Scheherzade on Windows 8 in LibreOffice Writer but it didn't
>> work. I wonder if a certain input order is required: digits first,
>> "year" first, space/ no space, etc?

> The year sign is an encompassing mark, so the encoding order is

>     <year sign> <digit> [<digit>...]

> In addition to the fonts noted, this works with the Microsoft 'Arabic
> Typesetting' font and the 'Adobe Arabic' font. Both these fonts use contextual
> substitutions to control the width of the sign relative to the number of
> digits, and contextual kerning to position the digits relative to the sign.