[Milsurplus] ot- anybody understand arabic or read it?

[J. Forster]

Meir,

What I was suggesting is a two step process: translate the characters to
their ASCII (or other machine readable) code; then machine translate that
to English via Google or equal.

It works with several languages. It'd work w/ Chinese except that there
are too many possible characters. It roughly works with some Japanese.

-John

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> John,
>
> The Arabic alphabet is not a Latin-based alphabet. It is one of the
> surviving members of the family of Semitic alphabets. You're right in
> that,
> that it's written from right to left, just like for example Hebrew, which
> is
> another surviving Semitic script, which has many characters similar to the
> Arabic ones.
>
> Regards,
>
> Meir WF2U
> Landrum, SC
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> To: jedifox
> Cc: Milsurplus
> Subject: Re: [Milsurplus] ot- anybody understand arabic or read it?
>
> I think Arabic has an alphabet like English, but reads right to left. Have
> you tried transscribing it and using Google Translate?
>
> -John
>
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>
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>
>
>> hi all,
>>         i have a russian telescopic sight from iraq i got it on ebay for
>> 22 dollars australian from a seller that collected it from iraq in 2003.
>> it has some arabic characters on the id plate,can anybody help with a
>> translation? i can email a pic of the id plate to the person that can
>> assist me.
>> thanks in advance to the group for any assistance that can be provided
>>
>> highest regards
>> leigh
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