If you can forward this to me as an attachment, I think I have someone who can proof it for you. Michael On Sat, 25 Dec 2004, Dave Fawthrop wrote:
On Fri, 24 Dec 2004 23:55:11 -0800, "D. Starner" <shalesller@writeme.com> wrote:
| "Dave Fawthrop" writes: | > The original ?Arabic? would be nice. | | In etext form? Yes. In paper form, it'd be down right useless for PG. | We just don't have anyone really capable of handling it.
Maybe a friend of a friend of someone on gutvol-d?
| We don't have | OCR--the Urdu team at DP-EU is completely type-in, and I don't know | of anyone interested in proofing more than a few lines of Arabic.
There are quite a lot of people who can read Classical Arabic, though not perhaps in the USA. I ended guessed an Arabic word and ended up with a long discussion with a Muslim lady who is quadra lingual about the differences between Classical Arabic and modern Arabics.
Unicode has all the characters required. Also right to left writing.
Also because Arabic is a language designed for calligraphy, a page scan of a well written copy would be useful.
Sorry but my knowledge of Arabic is theoretical :-(
-- Dave F
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