Kurdish- Arabic Text in Computer with Non-Standards, Challenges and Recommendations

Authors

  • Sardar O. Salih Department Of Computer Science, College of Science, University of Duhok, Kurdistan Region- Iraq

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25007/ajnu.v9n1a584

Keywords:

Script, character, Unicode, Kurdish-Arabic characters, Encoding.

Abstract

 This paper determines challenges when using Kurdish-Arabic script (Kurdish and Arabic characters) with computer. Any written script in computer passes in three steps, started from input characters (creating characters), store created characters (encoding) and displaying characters on screen or printing on printer. In Kurdish-Arabic written system (Central Kurdistan) challenges occur on these three steps, as a result, there is not standard (compatible issue) for Kurdish-Arabic script, such as keyboard layout (position of characters and ordered on board) (input issue), encoding for storing script and fonts to displaying Kurdish-Arabic script when using Arabic based keyboard. This research tries to find issues with cases while using this script and proposed recommendations which help to reduce these challenges.

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Published

2020-03-04

How to Cite

Salih, S. O. (2020). Kurdish- Arabic Text in Computer with Non-Standards, Challenges and Recommendations. Academic Journal of Nawroz University, 9(1), 134–139. https://doi.org/10.25007/ajnu.v9n1a584

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