Arabic Keyboard wrong

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Level 1

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Arabic Keyboard wrong

Hi all,
so I found out how I can activate the multiligual featuers of Mac...however, the keyboard is not typing correctly. The language settings are done, the language stickers are on my keyboard as well, but when I type it doesn't give me the correct characters and when I press shift to type the alternative letters associated with the same keystroke, it does the english language instead ( I mean it brings up whatever will come if you press shift while typing in English...)
And some keystrokes it is doing the opposite!! Its typing the letter that it should type when you press shift!!

ANY IDEAS?!

PS: I am confident of which keystroke is supposed to type which letter as I've been using arabic keyboard on PC for years.

MacBookPro, Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Posted on Aug 13, 2006 6:24 PM

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Answer 1

Conal Ho

Level 3

503 points

Aug 14, 2006 9:32 AM in response to LyricalJ

Just to make sure, have you done the following:
Apple Menu > International > Input Menu (a tab)

From the Input Menu tab, select the appropriate Arabic input method. I don't know anything about Arabic input method, but from what I can see, there are two methods:
1. Arabic
2. Arabic-QWERTY

You can select both by checking them

Then, at the bottom of the window, select Show input menu in menu bar.

Once you do that, you'll notice a new menu item. From that menu item, select the appropriate Arabic input method. Then type in your regular browser. Does it work? I hope so.

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Answer 2

Tom Gewecke

Level 10

122,252 points

Aug 14, 2006 3:19 AM in response to LyricalJ

PS: I am confident of which keystroke is supposed to
type which letter as I've been using arabic keyboard
on PC for years.

Your PC experience may not be that helpful. To see which keystroke types which letter on a Mac, you need to activate Keyboard Viewer in system prefs/international/input menu. Also there are two layout choices, Arabic and Arabic Qwerty.

There is an Arabic Windows keyboard layout you can download here:

http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/fs/FileSharing9.html

See this note for some general info:

http://homepage.mac.com/thgewecke/TypingArabic.html

Let us know if you still have problems.

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Answer 3

LyricalJ Author

Level 1

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Aug 15, 2006 7:54 PM in response to Tom Gewecke

that makes perfect sense. I wis I knew that before I stuck my 25 dollars worth of keyboard stickers on there!!
:((
now I downloaded that arabic windows layout *the first on your list) but not quite sure how I add it??

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Answer 4

LyricalJ Author

Level 1

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Aug 15, 2006 7:58 PM in response to Conal Ho

hey thanks for trying to help out 🙂 I already tried that, but the keyboard is mapped very differently from PC which I wish I knew before I stuck my stickers on there :S

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Answer 5

Tom Gewecke

Level 10

122,252 points

Aug 16, 2006 3:20 AM in response to LyricalJ

now I downloaded that arabic windows layout *the
first on your list) but not quite sure how I add it??

Put the file in Home/Library/Keyboard Layouts and logout/login. Then you should be able to check its box in system prefs/international/input menu and select it in the "flag" menu at the top right of the Finder.

This layout was done a long time ago, so let me know if it works. It is not difficult to modify such files using this tool:

http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?siteid=nrsi&itemid=ukelele

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