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Dan Parvaz Date: Sat Dec 29, 2001 10:49 pm Subject: Re: ARABIA: New Web Posting! | ||||||||||||||||
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> I am sorry about errors in the Arabic. I do not read Arabic, so I > didn't realize. But there is an excellent solution.... Hi Val, That's a nice cross-platform solution, assuming you keep the graphics *light*. In many Middle Eastern countries, phone lines are not exactly state-of-the-art, which sometimes leads to connection speeds of 9600 and sometimes even 4800 bps; what takes no time flat on my DSL connection can be mighty tedious in Syria or Algeria. For the moment, reading the opening credits is a bit like reading a crossword puzzle backwards :-) The cause of the "problem" is that you are not using Arabic Windows, so all those Arabic characters remain unjoined and left-to-right. You can use a word processing program like Accent which will handle Windows Arabic 1250 codepages in a US Windows environment. In Mac OS 9, you can install Apple's Arabic support and use iCab to read Arabic web pages, but that doesn't help with word processing. There are three different signs for "Arab" that I know of, used in Jordan (probably also used in KSA and Syria), Libya, and Tunisia. Once I get my bochs emulator to play nicely with SW4.4, I'll be happy to send them. For the moment, here are verbal descriptions (ugh): ARAB/ARABIC/ARABIAN: 1. LIU (Jordan): Fist, pinkie and thumb extended (Int'l Manual Alphabet "Y"), knuckles up, palm contra near ipsi ear. shake hand by rotating at wrist (like ASL YELLOW). 2. Libya: Fist, index and middle extended, fingers together (Int'l Manual Alphabet "U"), fingers pointing to upper contra quadrant, palm out in "neutral" space. Move hand back until back of extended fingers contact chin. 3. LST (Tunisia): Baby-C (as in ASL POLICE) contacts face, surrounding ipsi eye, palm facing contra. Assuming that a universally agreed-upon sign for "Arab" will not be found soon for a region which stretches from the Western coast of Africa to the Indian Ocean, it might be nice to have an animated GIF which shows as many signs for "Arab" as possible. I can't think of a nicer way to honor the linguistic richness,diversity, and unity of the region (9an iznak ya mHammad!). Cheers, Dan. | ||||||||||||||||
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