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I have the following MWE:

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{arabtex}
\usepackage{polyglossia}

\setdefaultlanguage{french}
 \begin{document}

 \setarab
 \fullvocalize
 \transtrue
 \arabtrue

 \RL{kw}
 \end{document}

When I try to compile it, i get:

! LaTeX Error: Command \nobreakspace unavailable in encoding U.

See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              

 l.17  \RL{kw}

Some Arabic sequences are impossible to write when polyglossia is used in the preamble with the in-understandable message about \nobreakspace without more explanations.

So how can I conciliate polyglossia with arabtex packages?

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  • Check out the arabxetex package (by the original author of polyglossia or use babel instead of polyglossia. – Alan Munn Feb 18 '18 at 23:05
  • Independently, this file produces no errors for me, so you might want to update your distribution or make sure you're not using an outdated local version of some package. – Alan Munn Feb 18 '18 at 23:32
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It seams that the problem only occur with french as main language.

So, for the moment I bypass the bugg with :

{\selectlanguage{english} \RL{kw}}

But it’s ugly and a little bit hacky…

Note that it isn’t work with \setlanguage{arabic}.

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    You really should follow Alan Munn’s advice. What you’re trying to do won’t work, because arabtex is only for pdftex, whereas polyglossia is for xetex and luatex. – Thérèse Feb 18 '18 at 23:27
  • I was doing that, but I use arabtex with XeTeX for years. Anyway, I will read the documentation and come back. – fauve Feb 18 '18 at 23:29

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