However, another aspect of what seemed like the same problem lingered on. I could type everything normally except for the blasted comma. It always came out like English. It turns out that the "problem" was that the only Arabic keyboard configuration in Mandrake 9.0/9.1 is for North African locales, rather than for Egypt (to which i'm accustomed). So, the numerals were like for French. Of course, if you're using French numerals in Arabic, then you still need a Latin comma. You use Latin comma for numerals and an Arabic comma for text. So, i kept typing what on a US qwerty keyboard is a comma. In Egypt, that would give you an Arabic comma when typing in Arabic, but i guess that in North Africa, it gives you the Latin comma for typing numerals. The Arabic comma in this configuration is at Shift+k (Shift+nuun).
Today i wrote an entire letter in OpenOffice.org in Arabic. This was the first time i've been able to type an entire document in Arabic since i started using Linux five years ago. (Before, i used WordPerfect for Windows with the Arabic language pack.) I'm ecstatic!
The question of how to get a non-North African Arabic keyboard configuration into Mandrake (and elsewhere), complete with Arabic Arabic numerals, still remains.
Leston
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