Re: typing arabic

[Mohammed Elzubeir <elzubeir at arabeyes dot org>]

On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 02:54:14PM -0700, Kamal Dalal wrote:
> 
> Not sure about the best way, but you can try this :
> 
> Launch the Character Map (Programs->Accessories->System Tools) . Select a
> font that has some arabic glyphs. Start double clicking on letters, you
> will see that they will be shaped correctly, copy the line and paste it
> into wordpad. Works for me on a w2k english version. Good luck.
> 
> -Kamal
> 
> --- Badis Ben-Hamida <bedis at cs dot umn dot edu> wrote:
> > Salam,
> > I was wondering, what is the best way to type text in arabic on an
> > english
> > windows. I just need to type a few words in arabic and print them out.
> > 

I think what is implied here is that the environment is Linux. You may
want to read:
http://www.arabeyes.org/archives/developer/2002/June/msg00000.html

which was posted earlier (june 2nd).

Hope it helps.
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