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Re: ãÓÇÁ ÇáÎíÑ

Richard Bos

2006-11-29, 6:57 pm

richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) wrote:

> In article <456da7c0$0$27382$ba4acef3@news.orange.fr>,
> jacob navia <jacob@jacob.remcomp.fr> wrote:
>
>
> Well, it purports to be in the windows-1256 encoding, which is an
> encoding for Arabic, so you're probably right.

No shit. And that from someone called Ebn.Shurrab, big surprise.
Strangely enough, encoded Arabic looks much like encoded Chinese on my
screen, as does encoded Brobdignagian.

> --
> "Consideration shall be given to the need for as many as 32 characters
> in some alphabets" - X3.4, 1963.

Good .sigmonster, have a cookie.

Richard

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