Arabicizing Windows:
Enabling Windows Applications to Read and Write Arabic
 

By: Al-Husein N. Madhany
The University of Chicago

What next?

Now that complete writing, reading, and word-processing capabilities in Arabic are available on the home PC, and now that Arabic is easily accessibly on the Internet, a world of language training activities has opened to the field of teaching Arabic as a foreign language.  We can finally expect our students to submit typed drafts of long compositions in Arabic, just as we would expect them to do in any language course.  Our students can join Arabic chat rooms and virtually interact with Arabic-writers from all over the world.  Finding electronic, Arabic-writing, pen pals is no longer a challenge due to the technological efforts of http://www.maktoob.com/; Sending and receiving Arabic e-mails have never been easier.  Even Arabic on-line proficiency tests are being developed and tested by a number of Arabic language institutions.  The possibilities, as you can see, are tremendous.  And it all starts with enabling Arabic in Windows. 

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