Hello Dan,
I am impressed and tried to understand your computer lesson. Hm - no chance
for a layman and computer- user who is still afraid of "mistakes " ha !
Nevertheless - I would love to make the animated gif -series if I would be
able to understand the different signs -
Is it possible for you to write the signs by hand, scan them and post them
as gifs . I would not mind to "retype them with the wonderfull wonderfull
SW44 programm ;-)
Here are my first suggestions as I understood your verbal descriptions if
there is a misunderstanding / misinterpretation - excuse me - and inform
me - but that is the advantage of SW that we can exchange across any spoken
language
Stefan ;-)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Parvaz"
To:
Sent: Saturday, December 29, 2001 10:49 PM
Subject: Re: ARABIA: New Web Posting!
> > 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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