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