--- Forwarded Message from Karima Benremouga <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2001 08:39:19 -0600
>From: Karima Benremouga <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #5991 How to type Arabic in Win9x and MAC OS9?
>In-reply-to: <[log in to unmask]>
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum    <[log in to unmask]>


If you don't have Arabic Windows 9x, it is very hard to type Arabic in 
Windows 9x. After months of trying to solve this problem, I was ready to 
buy Arabic Windows and MS Word$B7 Fortunately, I run into Windows 2000.
It is the best thing after the Internet! I type anything I want in Arabic. 
I switch back and forth between Arabic and English in the same document by 
switching from Arabic to English keyboard at the bottom right of your 
taskbar.
To add the Arabic keyboard, go to Settings, Control Panel, Keyboard, 
Language tab, Add, choose Arabic.

To type from right to left, just click on Align Right icon on the 
Formatting Toolbar. Typing Arabic has never been simpler!

Karima

At 08:27 AM 3/9/01 -0500, you wrote:
>--- Forwarded Message from Olaf Bohlke <[log in to unmask]> ---
>
> >Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2001 07:49:54 -0800
> >To: [log in to unmask]
> >From: Olaf Bohlke <[log in to unmask]>
> >Subject: How to type Arabic in Win9x and MAC OS9?
>
>------------------
>Dear LLTI,
>How can one a)type Arabic fonts and b)type from right to left in Windows9x
>and on the MAC using OS9?  (I only found one related question about this in
>the LLTI archive but no replies)
>
>WINDOWS9x:
>I have already found some Arabic fonts on the web and downloaded them.  I
>can now type in Arabic (I don't speak or read it), but how can one type
>from right to left?
>
>MACINTOSH OS9:
>I have not tried anything yet.  Any quick pointer into the right direction
>would be appreciated.  (I heard about the Arabic Language Kit included in OS9)
>I found good instructions at http://www.cam.ac.uk/CS/Docs/Infosheets/l21/
>
>My question: Is Nisus the way to go, or will Word98 'do OK'?
>
>
>We currently have Word97 installed on the IBMs and Office98 on our MACs.
>
>Thank you very much.
>
>Olaf
>
>Olaf Böhlke, Director HLRC
>Creighton U
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Karima Benremouga, Ph.D.
Arabic Language Program Coordinator
Director of the Foreign Language Lab
Modern and Classical Languages
University of Houston
http://www.hfac.uh.edu/mcl/karima