On Fri, 21 Mar 2003, Frank da Cruz wrote: > have what I hope are correct Arabic names for: > > Afghanistan, Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, India, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, > Kuwait, Lebanon, Libya, Morocco, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, > Sudan, Syria, Tajikistan, Tunisia, the United Arab Emirates, and > Yemen. > > But I can't read Arabic so all I can say is that these names appear to be > Arabic character strings. If anybody can check them (and/or supply others), > I'd be grateful (e.g. which of the former Soviet Republics besides Tajikistan > is switching over to Arabic script?) >
If you want to teach yourself the Arabic script, try: http://i-cias.com/babel/arabic/ Clicking on letters allows you to hear how to pronounce them (via Real Player). I think the speaker is northern European, so I have no idea how good his accent is. But it's a nice site. I find it easier to learn Arabic letters, even with the isolated/initial/medial/final forms than, say, Japanese hiragana. > http://www.columbia.edu/kermit/postal.html#index > > Thanks to Edward, Roozbeh, the IBM ICU people, and others who supplied > strings, pointers, and/or hints. > > When I have time I'll go through the other *.txt files and see what else I > can pick up. > > - Frank >
