Setting up your computer for Arabic
Step-by-step: Enabling Arabic support on your
Windows XP computer
You will need Administrative privileges to enable the
use of Arabic on your computer. This will not be a
problem for your home computer, but will require the
intervention of your network manager in an
educational institution.
Go to Start then Settings then
Control Panel and double-click on
Regional and Language Options.
When the Regional and Language
Options dialogue box appears, select the
Languages tab at the top of the box and then select
Install files for complex script and right-to-left
languages. If the files necessary for Arabic are not
already installed, you will be asked to insert the
Windows XP CD, which will allow you to install the
missing files – simply follow the instructions which
will come up automatically.When the necessary
changes have been made and you have finished
with the CD, press the Details … button. A new dialogue box will appear entitled Text Services and Input Languages.
Now you need to add Arabic as an input language before your computer will accept typing in Arabic.
In the Text Services and Input Languages box, press the Add button.A box appears entitled Add Input
Language. Choose Arabic for Input Language, it
does not greatly matter which country you choose, the
most common choice is Saudi Arabia. Choose Arabic
(101) for Keyboard Layout/IME and press OK.
Back in the Text Services and Input Languages
box, you need to specify where you want your
Language Bar to be, which will allow you to switch
between typing in English and Arabic. Click on
Language Bar and a dialogue box will appear
entitled Language Bar Settings.
Select Show the Language bar on the desktop
and click OK. Click OK to exit all the dialogue boxes
you have opened.
The Language Bar will appear somewhere on your
desktop and you can move it to where you find it
most convenient (probably the System Tray located
in the bottom right hand corner of your screen.)
When you want to input Arabic in a document, you
simply need to click on EN (for English) to bring up
the option AR (for Arabic.) Whichever you select, the keyboard will insert the
characters of that language.
Step-by-step: Enabling Arabic support on your
Windows XP computer
You will need Administrative privileges to enable the
use of Arabic on your computer. This will not be a
problem for your home computer, but will require the
intervention of your network manager in an
educational institution.
Go to Start then Settings then
Control Panel and double-click on
Regional and Language Options.
When the Regional and Language
Options dialogue box appears, select the
Languages tab at the top of the box and then select
Install files for complex script and right-to-left
languages. If the files necessary for Arabic are not
already installed, you will be asked to insert the
Windows XP CD, which will allow you to install the
missing files – simply follow the instructions which
will come up automatically.When the necessary
changes have been made and you have finished
with the CD, press the Details … button. A new dialogue box will appear entitled Text Services and Input Languages.
Now you need to add Arabic as an input language before your computer will accept typing in Arabic.
In the Text Services and Input Languages box, press the Add button.A box appears entitled Add Input
Language. Choose Arabic for Input Language, it
does not greatly matter which country you choose, the
most common choice is Saudi Arabia. Choose Arabic
(101) for Keyboard Layout/IME and press OK.
Back in the Text Services and Input Languages
box, you need to specify where you want your
Language Bar to be, which will allow you to switch
between typing in English and Arabic. Click on
Language Bar and a dialogue box will appear
entitled Language Bar Settings.
Select Show the Language bar on the desktop
and click OK. Click OK to exit all the dialogue boxes
you have opened.
The Language Bar will appear somewhere on your
desktop and you can move it to where you find it
most convenient (probably the System Tray located
in the bottom right hand corner of your screen.)
When you want to input Arabic in a document, you
simply need to click on EN (for English) to bring up
the option AR (for Arabic.) Whichever you select, the keyboard will insert the
characters of that language.
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