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Missing anchors and GDEF glyph class for Arabic dot marks
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Description
When building the attached font, Arabic dot mark glyphs are not assigned a GDEF glyph class and there are no GPOS mark feature for them.
The font decomposes Arabic glyphs into base and dot mark, so without the correct GDEF glyph class and the mark feature the font is completely broken.
[QahiriTest.glyphs.zip](https://github.com/googlefonts/fontmake/files/4435447/QahiriTest.glyphs.zip)
Above is Glyphs app built file, below is fontmake built one (text is بنيت بيتا وأنجبت بنتا):

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