Arabic-L:GEN:Arabic on Mac responses

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Date: 17 Jan 2001
From: YemenLC at aol.com
Subject: Arabic on Mac response

None of the applications you mentioned  supports Arabic. Microsoft programs
DO NOT Support Arabic on the Mac! (who cares. You never need them.)
The best programs for Arabic are: Nisus Writer, WinText, Al-Nashir Al-Sahafi,
PageMaker ME, Photoshop ME, inDeign ME and others. I believe apple works 6.0
also supports Arabic. I have 5.0 the spread sheet, database and the graphic
programs in apple works support Arabic. The wordprocessor does not support
Arabic!
For Web browsing, iCab is the best by far. Netscape supports Arabic only if
you are running the Arabic version of the Mac OS 9. You can import Arabic
text from windows into Al-Nashir al-Sahafi.
Hope this help.
Mohammed Rahawi

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Date: 17 Jan 2001
From: Jamal Qureshi <jamal_qureshi at hotmail.com>
Subject: Arabic on Mac response

I haven't had the time to really check it out, but the following site might
have some solutions for you:

http://www.mughamarat.com/

Apparently they were recently featured on Moroccan television.

Jamal Qureshi

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Date: 17 Jan 2001
From: Jamal Ali <jamalali at pacbell.net>
Subject: Arabic on Mac response

These applications will not cooperate with the Mac's Arabic Language kit
too well. For word processing in Arabic, you need Nisus Writer, and to
read most web pages in Arabic, the best bet for the Mac is iCab.

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