On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
> Alef Fatha Lam Sukun Qaf Fatha Alef Ain Kasra Dal Fatha Teh-Marbuta
>(Damma)
It strikes me as weird that none of the major news media have gone to the
pain of finding out how the buzzwords of the day (al-Qaida and Osama bin
Laden) are actually written in Arabic, properly transliterated or even
pronounced. I spent nearly an hour looking around, online, and found
absolutely nothing. Someone really ought to put out a short, multilingual,
Unicode-ized FAQ on the subject. I for one would be thrilled to be able to
refer to the concepts in their original form, as I've for some time tried
to do with e.g. Japanese ones.
Sampo Syreeni, aka decoy - mailto:decoy@iki.fi, tel:+358-50-5756111
student/math+cs/helsinki university, http://www.iki.fi/~decoy/front
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