Re: more on Duali

[Mohamed Eldesoky <arabi at hotpop dot com>]

On Wednesday 14 August 2002 11:41 am, Mohammed Elzubeir wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 09:30:47AM +0300, Mohamed Eldesoky wrote:
> > > If you're opting for the Holy Quran, be aware of the fact that modern
> > > day Arabic doesn't constitute some of the words written there-in to be
> > > spelled according to current agreed-upon customs (just an FYI).
>
> Sure.. but the word structures are the same. The grammar has not changed.
>
> > Yeah, It is written in OTTOMAN way, which is not of help for Duali.
>
> Are you saying you don't expect the Quran to pass a specll-checking test?
This is not something wrong.
I mean the spelling is sometimes different.
Sometimes the (ALEF) is represented as a ( MADDA) not as an ALEF.
So any spell checker not designed for the quran, will not success in that.

Mohamed Eldesoky

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