Arabic-L:GEN:lesson on Arabic coding

[Dilworth Parkinson]

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Date: 25 Apr  2005
From:schulz at research.att.com
Subject:lesson on Arabic coding

[this message was for me, but I thought some of you might be able to  
learn something from it as well, so here it is.  It was in response to  
the pronunciation query that had unreadable charaters in  
it.--moderator]

Dilworth,
You may not be interested in this level of detail -- but just in case  
you
are:

Sampa is one transcription system for Arabic that is used by the Speech
Community.   You can check out
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/sampa/arabic.htm for a chart.   Sampa is
phonemic, so you can almost, but not quite, directly map Sampa into  
Arabic
orthography  (The glottal stop, /?/, for example, can be written in many
ways depending on context).

The stuff in the right hand column is just the cp1256 code for each  
letter,
so
D1 is raa, E6 is waaw, E3 is miim and C7 is alif   (روما)

It is straightforward to translate that right column to Arabic  
orthography.

David Schulz
AT&T Labs

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