Since Arabic doesn’t use the Latin alphabet, and lots of the letters don’t have Latin equivalents (خ, ع, ق, ط, for example), transliteration is necessary to show Arabic words and sounds in English writing. There is an easy way to type transliterated Arabic quickly, though, using macros to locate hidden Unicode characters used by many of the standard transliteration systems. (more…)
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Typing transliterated Arabic quickly
Sunday, April 26th, 2009Using Arabic in InDesign without InDesign ME
Monday, September 17th, 2007About a year ago I discovered to my dismay that using Arabic in InDesign was entirely impossible. (more…)
