Arabic-L:GEN:Arabic on Web on Mac responses

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Date:  25 Jul 2002
From:mehalld at georgetown.edu
Subject:Arabic on Web on Mac response

To read Arabic language websites on the Mac, download the ICAB browser
from this address: http://www.icab.de/download.html

Best,
David Mehall

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2)
Date:  25 Jul 2002
From:"Rahawi, Mohammed" <RahawiM at state.gov>
Subject:Arabic on Web on Mac response

I use mozilla 1.1 and OS 9.2. It works fine for me. You might want to
switch
to OS 9.x when you need to view Arabic pages. Anyway. OS 10.2 is out
and I
was told that it supports Arabic.
Good luck,
Mohammed Rahawi

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3)
Date:  25 Jul 2002
From:Gregg Reynolds <greynolds at greynolds.com>
Subject:Arabic on Web on Mac response

Mozilla 1.0 works fairly well on my OS X 10.1.5 system (also worked on
10.1.4).  There are a few bugs but it is usable.  For example, a shaping
doesn't work for the occasional headline; it does work for the tab title
string, but not for the window title string.  (A newer (beta) release of
Mozilla claims to have improved arabic shaping.)  The default typesize
is a bit small but www.al-jazeera.com is readable and magnification
works.  You have to get your own fonts.  I got some from the web but I
don't remember where.  Take a look at http://www.arabeyes.org.  Put the
fonts in /Users/<yourid>/Library/Fonts.  Also make sure
Preferences->Navigator->Languages has an entry for Arabic.  Also there
is a "Fonts" section under Preferences->Appearance.  If this isn't
working for you be sure to check your versions.

You can always buy a copy of Virtual PC and run windows software.  I did
this before discovering that Mozilla works ok under OS X.  It runs
pretty slowly, though, and it's not free.  But I expect it will run
substantially faster under 10.2; if you have already invested in
Windows-based software it's worth a look.

Version 10.2 is due out in little more than a month, and apparently will
have full support for Arabic, Hebrew, and other non-latinate and
non-Hanzi writing systems.  Yay!  With this I'd say anybody in the
market for new computing equipment would be insane to buy a windows
machine instead of a Mac (writing as an ex-windows xp user).

Good luck,

Gregg

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4)
Date:  25 Jul 2002
From:"sattar.izwaini at stud.umist.ac.uk"
<Sattar.Izwaini at student.umist.ac.uk>
Subject:Arabic on Web on Mac response

Hello
Sinbad is a free software by Sakhr that enables you to read Arabic
on Mac. You can download it from on their web site:
www.sakhr.com

Regards
Sattar Izwaini

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5)
Date:  25 Jul 2002
From:Waheed Samy <wasamy at umich.edu>
Subject:Arabic on Web on Mac response

Someone recently said that Netscape works, so I tried it.

I was indeed able to get Arabic, but it's inverted.  So that
if you read al-Ahram online, for Mubarak (in Arabic)
you get karabuM.

Maybe a mirror would help :)

Waheed

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6)
Date:  25 Jul 2002
From:alijamal at attbi.com
Subject:Arabic on Web on Mac response

The best solution for reading Arabic web pages is to throw the Mac away
and
get a PC. Windows XP has Arabic support built in as an install option.

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