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From: liber@darth.PGH.PA.US (Eric Liber)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: AGAIN: Arabic on PC?  Information wanted
Summary: I saw one once
Message-ID: <497@darth.PGH.PA.US>
Date: 12 Jul 89 13:12:17 GMT
References: <5212@eva.slu.se>
Organization: Darth Software, Pittsburgh Pa.
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In article <5212@eva.slu.se>, ernst_witter@eva.slu.se writes:
>      What I am looking for is any type of hardware/software
> which will allow me to write and print arabic characters on
> a UK version of a PC compatible. The main use is for standard
> word processing, and something that would work in conjunction
> with WordPerfect would be ideal. Does anyone know of such a
> product?. It has to do more than just produce arabic characters
> on the screen and printer using complex key stroke combination, 
> but actually redefine the keyboard as large chunks of text will
> be written in Arabic rather than just the odd characters.
.
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About 5 years ago I was in Saudi Arabia for a few weeks on a company job and
I saw a product called Arabstar.  I was supposed to be a specially modified
version of Wordstar from a company in the UK somewhere.  It worked just as you
would expect and wrote from right to left on the screen and printed to the 
printer (epson or IBM graphics - i think) in readable arabic .. how should I
know ? I can't read it or speak it :-).  Unfortunately that is about all I
know.  However, i do have a suggestion; why not call or visit the Saudi 
embassy in your country or check for a saudi student's club or other 
organization.  Someone there is almost sure to use such a product.
Hope this helps ... good luck
Eric (the red baron) Liber