Arabic-L:GEN:Arabic e-mail on Mac response

[Dilworth Parkinson]

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Date:  26 Jun 2002
From:knut.vikor at smi.uib.no
Subject:Arabic e-mail on Mac response

Dear Friends,
What is the best method for reading and writing Arabic email on the Mac?
Thanks and cheers,
Abu Sammy.

It should work reasonably well with Eudora, when you have installed
the Eudora Middle East tables. Any version of Eudora will do.
<http://www.hf.uib.no/smi/files/eudtab.html>

Perceived problems:

- Arabic text is sometimes displayed in an Arabic font automatically,
sometimes you have to select the font manually (depending on the
sender's email settings). Similar with mail from Arabic Windows
users; if properly labelled it will transcode to Mac Arabic
automatically, if not you have to choose "Arabic Windows" from a
Transliteration menu.

- Periods and colons may cause line layout to be confused (the text
before and after the period is interchanged).

- If the sender has labelled the msg. incorrectly (e.g. as
"Latin-1"), the Arabic may become corrupted. Sometimes you can easily
correct this through the Transliteration menu, sometimes it has
become hopelessly entangled, particularly if it has passed through a
listserv.

Knut

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