Re: Some Translation issues we discussed.

[Mohamed Magdy <mohamed dot m dot k at gmail dot com>]

Youssef Chahibi wrote:
> On Sunday 15 October 2006 14:45, Djihed Afifi wrote:
> > He recommanded translating the non abbbreviated name to arabic, and
> > then abbreviating the translation using arabic rules.
> > e.g. IP
> > Internet Protocol = بروتوكول الإنترنت
> > IP = ب.إ
> What should be the abbreviation letters? The first letter or he first letter 
> of the radical?
> ex:
Let us not make it hard coded rules and deal with each abbreviation at a 
time .. I mean , someone proposes(like you) then we all discuss it until 
we reach an agreement...
> معلم متعامد ممنظم مباشر:
> ‌م‌م‌م‌م‌
> ع‌ع‌ن‌ب

Sorry, but what is the English abbreviation ? I don't know what it means...
> I used here the Persian ZWNJ (Zero width non joiner), which disjoins letters 
> without a space. Should we use it for Arabic abbreviations and include it in 
> the standard layout? Because the dot takes too much space.
I don't know about that ... but I prefer the dots because even if it 
takes a lot of space(as you are saying), it prevents confusion ....

Djihed, will you please start the wiki page I mentioned before?

Mohamed