--- Forwarded Message from Patrick Murphy <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 23:58:13 -0400
>Subject: Re: [Macgroup] Arabic and OS X
>From: Patrick Murphy <[log in to unmask]>
>To: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]>,   Mac Users Group <[log in to unmask]>
>In-Reply-To: <1743517.1063824167@[192.168.1.4]>

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Well, I only studied a year and a half of Arabic, so I'm hardly an 
expert or anything, but I know generally how it works and when it 
doesn't, so...

Let me echo Tom's comments that Arabic pages render fine for me in 
Safari.  Likewise, the Arabic keyboard script in OS X works fine with 
TextEdit, allowing me to input the initial, medial and final 
characters/ligatures, looking as they should.  I realize that it isn't 
the most robust word processing package, but it works.

Regards,
Patrick
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On Wednesday, September 17, 2003, at 06:42 PM, Laura Atkinson wrote:

>
> Hi all,
>
> Has anyone successfully done much of anything with Arabic and OS X 
> (without resorting to Classic)? MS Office X isn't Unicode ready, so we 
> have Nisus Writer Express, but the characters come out disconnected. 
> According to the Nisus website, Panther may resolve this, but who 
> knows when that will come out. Later this year, maybe. 
> <http://www.apple.com/macosx/panther/>
>
> Can anyone view Arabic webpages in OS X? Is there an alternative word 
> processor, maybe OpenOffice, that works?
>
> Thanks,
> Laura
>
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