Apple Macintosh Arabic Language Kit - Manual (Page 3)

Chapter 1 Introduction A-1
About this manual A-1
About the Arabic Language Kit A-1
Requirements A-2
Chapter 2 Setting Up A-3
Installing the Arabic Language Kit from the compact disc A-3
Installing the Arabic Language Kit from floppy disks A-3
Displaying Arabic or Persian filenames correctly A-5
Installing SimpleText Arabic A-6
Removing the Arabic Language Kit from your system A-6
Chapter 3 Choosing a Language for Your
Application Program A-9
The Arabic Language Register program A-9
Registering your program for Arabic A-9
Creating a Roman Language Register A-10
Chapter 4 Working in Multiple Languages A-11
What are scripts? A-11
Primary and secondary scripts A-12
Choosing a keyboard layout A-12
Arabic Language Kit keyboard layouts A-12
The standard Arabic keyboard layout A-13
Arabic keyboard layout for PowerBook computers A-13
The Arabic-QWERTY transliterated keyboard layout A-14
The Arabe-AZERTY transliterated keyboard layout A-15
The Persian keyboard layout A-16
About the transliterated keyboard layouts A-16
Transliteration guidelines A-16
The Keyboard control panel A-18
The Text control panel A-18
Specific features for right-to-left scripts A-19
The Arabic Setting control panel A-19
The Persian Setting control panel A-21
The Arabic characters encoding table A-21
Chapter 5 Troubleshooting A-23
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