A few weeks have passed since the day my notebook was 'hospitalized' and re-formatted. I have been struggling with Arabic typing over the net after it was later hand on back to me because the current Windows XP that is re-installed doesn't include the 101 Arabic Keyboard in it's Language and Regional setting. I am forced to use an online Arabic keyboard ever since (I'm not very good in solving technicality so I don't know options other than this).
Yesterday was a day of excitement. I found Yamli. Yamli was launched in 2007 (obviously, not something new in the World Wide Web) but has only just recently came into my acknowledgment. This Arabic made-easy software has two products namely Yamli Smart Arabic Keyboard and Yamli Arabic Search. These two make writing in Arabic on the net possible anywhere and anytime... without an Arabic keyboard! Simply spell any word you want in English and Yamli will give several of it's options in Arabic.
Since I am really not qualified to elaborate more for the fact that I, too have just had it installed over here, I'll just show a few screen shots and let you discover the rest of Yamli's Smart Arabic Keyboard and Yamli Arabic Search features yourselves.
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an example of the Yamli Arabic Search Engine
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an example of how Yamli helps typing Arabic
(without an Arabic Keyboard) on blogger.com
Trying to understand the transliteration code and pattern for effective Arabic search on Yamli had further led me to an interesting wikipedia article on Arabic Chat Alphabet. Certain Arabic alphabets and their numbers or characters' representation are shown in this section.
Although this post aren't detail enough, I hope that it will be of few benefits for all if not much, inshallah.
