On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 00:02, Karim Elaagouby wrote: > Salam all, > > > I would like to bring attention to the use of harakat > (fat'ha, kasra, thamma etc.) and propose a solution to what I > see is a major problem. > > In the last several years, I noticed that TV news reporters > make a lot of mistakes that sound like grammatical mistakes, > as for instance starting a verb in passive voice with a > fat'ha, e.g. "yaktobo" instead of "yoktabo". > While reading news papers, I found myself having to read past > the first few words in a sentence to realize that I made a > mistake. > > More generally, I noticed that electronic text in arabic tend > to have less tashkil than hand-written one. > Regardless of the fact that arabic is so sofiticated and you > can read it without tashkil, tashkil definitely improve the > speed of reading and avoid confusion with regard to word > meanings. > But why is tashkil not used to often as it should be on > computers? > > Actually, the answer is simple: it's not easily accessible to > do so, most keyboards don't even show the keys for harakat, > so most people don't know how to put a haraka on a letter in > MS Word, for example. >
What do you mean? most people I know know exactly where harakat are, (shift + qweraszx`) > So, I started dreaming up a solution to help anyone put > tashkil on text. When I first saw this announcement I got excited, thinking this would be an program/library that automatically inserts tashkeel into arabic text (yes it's possible, see the research on the subject and sakhr's software) _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
