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>Subject: RE: #6623 Arabic Program "Accent"
>Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 19:27:05 -0400
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Henny,
One Accent program related to Arabic that I am familiar with was a good
multilingual word processor for Windows with deep Arabic roots (it seems to
me it might have originated with an Israeli company). As I recall, there was
also an Accent multilingual web browser, during the heady post-Mosaic,
pre-Internet Explorer days of real browser competition. The Accent word
processor is at least 6 years old, so in terms of today's standards it would
be somewhat dated, but I think it was Unicode-based.
One possible place to get it is from Transparent Language,Inc.
(http://www.transparent.com, [log in to unmask], tel. 603-465-2230). They
licensed it and bundled it with their "Learn Arabic Now" program and
probably several other packages. In fact I have in front of me the
still-shrink-wrapped "Bonus CD" (part# P700/TC170071). Accent may have had
an Arabic spell-checker included with it, but apart from that, I can't think
of any Arabic capability it had that Microsoft Word or WordPad running on
Windows 2000 or XP, or several other multilingual word processors, wouldn't
also be capable of.
Best wishes,
Rick Kunst
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> >Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2002 20:07:42 -0000
> >To: <[log in to unmask]>
> >From: <[log in to unmask]>
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>
> Hello everyone,
>
> This is my first time to send a message and I'm looking forward to getting
> an answer to my question.
>
> We are looking for an Arabic program called Accent. I was given the
> information on where to buy it from a very reliable source, but apparently
> Accent Software International in Colorado Springs has gone out of
> business. LanguageWare.net (formerly Accent Software International Ltd.)
> is also out of business.
>
> Do any of you know where could we find this program?
>
> Please help.
> Thanks,
>
> Henny
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