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Re: [developers] Standards for Arabic support in computers?
- To: Development Discussions <developer at arabeyes dot org>
- Subject: Re: [developers] Standards for Arabic support in computers?
- From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug dot org>
- Date: Sat, 18 Sep 2010 13:37:28 +0300
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On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 08:48:34PM +0430, Mostafa Hajizadeh wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Does anybody know of any standards about supporting Arabic script in
> computers? Here in Iran we have two national standards: ISIRI 6219
> (ISIRI is our national standards institute) is for Unicode-compatible
> text transfer and display, and ISIRI 9147 is for Persian keyboard
> layout. Do we have something similar in the Arab world?
There were some ASMO (Arabic Standards and Metrology organization)
standardisation efforts, I don't think it is relevant anymore, though,
and a quick googling did not reveal any official references.
--
Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer