Arabic-L:GEN:Diacritics in Windows

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1) Subject:Diacritics in Windows
2) Subject:Diacritics in Windows

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Date:  30 Dec 2002
From: Antonio GimÈnez <huesteantigua at yahoo.es>
Subject:Diacritics in Windows

Those of you concerned about diacritics display for educational purposes
might be interested in Microsoft Arabic Typesetting font, designed by  
Mamoun
Sakkal and produced by Microsoft’s Typography Group. It is an OpenType
Unicode-enabled font for Windows 2000/XP supporting Arabic script  
languages
(Arabic, Persian, Ottoman Turkish, Adighe, Baluchi, Berber, Dargwa,  
Ingush,
Kashmiri, Kazakh, Kirghiz, Lahnda, Maghrib Arabic, Old Hausa, Old Malay,
Pashto, Sindhi, Tunisian Arabic, Turkic, Uighur, Urdu), archaic letters
(dotless kaf and ba'), Qur'anic annotations signs, presentation forms,  
and
all major systems of transliteration. You can find further information  
at:

http://www.middleeastmedievalists.org/compute.html (a PDF sample is
available for download)

and:
http://www.microsoft.com/typography/developers/volt/volt9.htm

For the time being, Arabic Typesetting is only available as a Microsoft
Visual OpenType Layout Tool (VOLT) supplemental file. It is provided for
illustration only, and may not be altered or redistributed.

I have tested it on Microsoft Windows 2000 and Office 2000. It is a nice
font as you can see on the PDF sample but it seems to be under  
development
and requires a newest version of a certain driver, called usp10.dll,  
which
Microsoft is not distributing yet.

I remember having read that Arabic Typesetting could be distributed in
future versions of Microsoft Office, but cannot confirm it.

Antonio Giménez
huesteantigua at yahoo.es

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Date:  30 Dec 2002
From:  GnhBos at aol.com
Subject:Diacritics in Windows

Try Universal Word 2000 word processor. Under the Shift Key, you have
the Harakat and many other nice things. Download the Free Demo at:

http://www.aramedia.com/uniword.htm

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