Finally Apple added Arabic language support the their latest iPhone OS 3.0. This update is currently available as a beta for iPhone developers. The iPhone is now available in 4 Arabic speaking countries: Saudi Arabia, UAE, Jordan and Egypt. And it will be available in Qatar soon. (via SaudiMac).
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great news indeed!
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Dang, now I have to wait for 3.0 to go public. I hope it speeds up everything I want is on it.
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I tried iphone os 3.0 beta 5 and it seems it supports Arabic, but when I tried with Safari not every Arabic letter is written correctly.
For example: the word Bi’ar, because the letter ba has kasra, hamza will be written on top of ya without dots. I couldn’t write hamza, the only alif I could write is the standing alif. Do you know how to write the other forms of hamza? There is a bug as well related to kassra, dumma, fatha ….etc.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks,
Karim
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Khaled A. Reply:
May 19th, 2009 at 9:49 am
if you have the iphone os 3 beta then I assume you are in the developer program? if so then you should report it to the developer forum
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Hey Karim,
Did you try with the letter “?”as a pop-up of the “?”?
It worked fine for me like that…
Joey
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