Re: Request for comments on Square Arabic

["N. Heer" <heer at u dot washington dot edu>]

Chahine,

	Your square Arabic letters are very similar to those proposed
years ago by Nasri Khattar.  Similar letters were also proposed by Mahmud
Majdi.  Both were Egyptian engineers.  I've always wondered why no one
ever adopted them.  It would have made printing much easier not to mention
computing.
					Nicholas

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Chahine M. Hamila wrote:

> Hi,
>
> This is a proposed optional way to write and read Arabic in the digital
> world. It'll make the process of internationalization a lot more easier
> since it will discard the shaping stage as well as improve readabilty of
> technicalese and acronyms in Arabic.
>
> (it will also have the merit to add to the already very rich and superb
> calligraphy we have in Arabic;))
>
> Reactions by the first testers were so far positive.
>
> Open for comments:
>
> http://www.arabeyes.org/~chahine/home.html#squarearabic
>
> Regards,
> Chahine
>
> _______________________________________________
> General mailing list
> General at arabeyes dot org
> http://www.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
>