Arabic Application Development Using Microsoft VB 6.0

Arabic Symbology
Although Arabic is SBCS language, it present a special challenge to programmers. Because they’re script language traditionally written with a pen, a character can take on a different shape depending on where it appears in a word. This is similar to use capital letters at the beginning of European and American words. Many Arabic characters, however, have four variations for when the character appears at the beginning, middle, or end of a word and for when it appears by itself. More...