Friday, March 02, 2007

tech support

when i type arabic on a computer i can't touch type. i haven't memorized the keys of the arabic keyboard and the letters on the keyboard i use are only in english. so when i type in arabic, i always use the on-screen keyboard.

on one of the computers that i regularly use the onscreen keyboard no longer displays arabic characters. it used to be that if i switched the system into "arabic mode" the onscreen keyboard would display arabic characters so i could hunt and peck out whatever i wanted to write. but now even in arabic mode the keyboard still displays english characters. though if i click on one of those english letters, it still types in arabic.

so how do i get the onscreen keyboard back to how it used to be, displaying arabic characters on the screen when i'm in arabic mode? the computer in question is a PC using windows XP. does anyone out there have any idea?