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Arabic Keyboard for Mac?
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Senior User
Join Date: Nov 1999
Location: Tucson, AZ
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Does anyone know where I can find a USB, Arabic, Mac OS X compatible keyboard?
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Frozen storage at Area 51, wrapped in pigskin. My damned soul is never getting out of the Great Satan.
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you can enable the Arabic keyboard within OS X, and then open up Key Caps to view the Arabic layout. If you're familiar with the letters, it doesn't take long to memorize the layout.
to enable the Arabic keyboard: open system preferences. select the 'international' pane. select the 'input menu' tab. Check Arabic. Now you're all set.
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Join Date: Sep 2003
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by the way, it'd work the same way with an external keyboard.
however, if what you're really referencing is having the actual letters on the keyboard keys, then I recommend just buying stickers. with Cyrillic, they just sell the stickers, and people just stick them on their keyboards. I imagine Arabic 'keyboards' are done the same way.
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Join Date: Nov 1999
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Thanks. That tells me what I need to know.
The reason I ask is because a Saudi friend of mine wants to switch to a Mac. He already has a keyboard with Arabic printed on it, but it's not USB.
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Join Date: Jun 2001
Location: Northwest Ohio
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Originally posted by Uday's Carcass:
with Cyrillic, they just sell the stickers, and people just stick them on their keyboards.
You can go that route, but I bet Apple makes keyboards that have the Arabic letters printed on them... but they're probably only sold in the Middle East.
I speak Greek, and Apple makes Greek keyboards (Pro Keyboards with Greek and Latin letters on the keys), but they're only sold in Greece. Fortunately, the last time I was there I was able to buy one and bring it home to the U.S. 
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Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: Huntington Beach, CA
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Originally posted by Uday's Carcass:
by the way, it'd work the same way with an external keyboard.
however, if what you're really referencing is having the actual letters on the keyboard keys, then I recommend just buying stickers. with Cyrillic, they just sell the stickers, and people just stick them on their keyboards. I imagine Arabic 'keyboards' are done the same way.
I've tried stickers before. Eventually they pick up all the oils and dirt from your fingertips and they fall off (the stickers!).
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