Underscore in Arabic

Question

The following:

\begin{Arabic}بالدم_فريق_السحمان_مايروح\end{Arabic}

does not print the whole sentence,

\begin{Arabic}بالدم_فريق_السحمان\textunderscore مايروح\end{Arabic} 

also doesnt work,

\begin{Arabic}السحمان_مايروح\end{Arabic}\textunderscore\begin{Arabic}بالدم_فريق\end{Arabic}

does work, but adds an extra space after the underscore.

is there a better/proper way to do this, or remove the space?

Answer 1

You can use \_ to include a literal underscore in Arabic just like for other text. For RTL text, this looks like _\:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{english}
\setotherlanguage{arabic}
\newfontfamily\arabicfont[Script=Arabic]{Amiri}
\begin{document}
this\_is\_it
\begin{Arabic}بالدم\_فريق\_السحمان\_مايروح\end{Arabic}
\end{document}

Result: