Hi Steve,
That is true, the index is not needed for Find Nearest.
Which means that the problem must be in the individual tiles. If I create a single tile with only one POI with the name "مطار" then as far as I can tell the same string is placed into the .img file, I am not seeing the obvious corruption of letters that I could see in the other case.
(I'm using the options --code-page=1256 --route --index --tdbfile)
That's true, all the Arabic names in the .img file are correct. Is it possible that a similar bug exists in the code that generates .img? Because before the last two patches, the index was corrupted even that the names were correct in the mdr file.
Unfortunately I don't know enough to go further with this, without more help about what might be wrong.
Can I help you with anything? Regards, Hosam