Arabic-L:GEN:Pashto typing responses

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1) Subject:Pashto typing response
2) Subject:Pashto typing response: a warning

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Date:  12 Apr 2002
From:Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject:Pashto typing response

Greetings.
This set-up procedure should work on Windows XP (this is a "quick and 
dirty how-to-do it" process; details later if needed):

1.  First, install the "Arabic" feature in 'regional settings' in your 
control panel.

That will install the critical right-to-left (RTL) drivers and Arabic 
fonts, most of which are also used in Pashto

...Notice: the Pashto alphabet has a few distinctive/unique additional 
characters, one of which looks like "teh" with a small circle attached 
underneath at the far end.

2.  I can e-mail some Farsi/Kurdihs TTF fonts that you will need to 
install and select when you start a MS Word file (and select AR = Arabic 
as the language option.

FYI...That Pashto "teh-with-dot" character is not in those TTF sets, so 
you'll have to do some Unicode search and keyboard mapping, as it's in 
there somewhere. (I don't work in Pashto, but know a few Afghan 
transators in the LA area).

Web searches for Pashto fonts might well yield the complete alphabet.

3.  Go to the Microsoft web site, enter seach term "Farsi keyboard," 
download and print that Farsi keyboard diagram (different from the 
Arabic keyboard)--- it helps if you print the diagram, then make copies 
X 125 % magnification.

4.  If you have MS Office XP or 2000 suite with that version of MS Word, 
you should be able to produce what you need in Pahsto.

(Urdu production is another and much more complex matter, BTW.)

HTH. Khair, in sha' Allah.
Regards from Los Angeles,
Stephen H. Franke
(English <-> Arabic,
Kurdish, and Farsi)

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Date:  12 Apr 2002
From:Mutarjm at aol.com
Subject:Pashto typing response: a warning

Greetings again.
Reminder / heads up of you plan on e-mailing Pashto MS Word files:

Whoever is receiving your e-mailed Pashto (aka Pashtu) MS Word files 
must have compatible or compliant MS Windows 2K /  XP setup to enable 
opening, displaying and editing the Pashto text.

You probably also would have to supply your online recipient with the 
TTF fonts for that work in MS Word, plus for proper opening and display 
of any Pashto PDF files.

If you need some text, brochures, scripts, etc. translated and 
word-processed into the Pashto (or other languages and alphabets of 
Eurasia/Central Asia/SW Asia), I can suggest some good, 
suitably-equipped, and discreet sources here in southern California.

HTH.
Regards,
Stephen H. Franke


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