| Title: | BAGELS and other things of Jewish interest |
| Notice: | 1.0 policy, 280.0 directory, 32.0 registration |
| Moderator: | SMURF::FENSTER |
| Created: | Mon Feb 03 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Jun 05 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1524 |
| Total number of notes: | 18709 |
The latest issue of _Communications of the ACM_ (July '87) has a cover article on "Arabic Word Processing". The article describes a project at Xerox providing word-processing functions for the Arabic and Hebrew alphabets. I found the article interesting. It's nice to see collaboration between people with Arabic and Jewish surnames. There is one discordant note, however. Figure 3 on Page 603 shows a workstation screen with several Hebrew and Arabic windows. One of the windows has a map of the Middle East in which every country is labeled with its Arabic name. Except Israel, which is labeled with an empty shaded box. Hmmm...
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| 339.1 | We sell something like that | LAIDBK::GASSNER | DNA breaths life into Networks | Sun Aug 09 1987 01:47 | 17 |
Yes, indeed. Did you know that we have an Arabic product? Available now, from DEC Direct, you too can purchase... ARABIC P/OS R3.1 for the PRO/380!!! Yes, indeed we have two modes - DECMode and AL-Arabi character sets. All four cases included - typing right to left (except in English mode). Some Arabic characters even correctly occupy two character cells on the screen. A special font ROM is available to print on the LN03... I've still not heard of a "standard" DEC product which does Hebrew, however. How about an international SPELL checker? -- Steve | |||||
| 339.2 | We have Local products... | TAVENG::CHAIM | Le'Chaim | Sun Aug 09 1987 04:00 | 13 |
Re. 0:
But the occupied territories are included...
Re. .1:
Our LEG (Israel) has been producing local Hebrew terminals, printers,
work_stations, and etc. which are available locally via DEC Direct.
To the best of our knowledge the ARABIC P/OS R3.1 is not a standard
product either.
Cb.
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