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<FONT FACE="Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><SPAN STYLE='font-size:12.0px'>Hi Lamia, <BR>
We use the Buckwalter transliteration system which is a one 2 one encoding of Arabic letters into latin script. One issue with this transliteration system is that it uses some special characters such as “><{}*” but you can always use alternates for these especially if you use xml tagging.<BR>
Here is a pointer<BR>
<a href="http://www.qamus.org/transliteration.htm">http://www.qamus.org/transliteration.htm</a><BR>
Cheers<BR>
Mona<BR>
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On 10/19/07 11:21 PM, "Lamia Hadrich Belguith" <l.belguith@fsegs.rnu.tn> wrote:<BR>
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I am looking for a standard for Arabic transliteration <BR>
using Latin characters<BR>
Can anybody give me a hint?<BR>
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Thanks a lot,<BR>
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Lamia <BR>
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