Re: Arabic ASCII?

[andras@xxxxxxxxxx]

Jason Morningstar writes:
> Hello Friends,
> 
> I'm interested in comparing ASCII-transcibed VMS text to a language with
> null characters, like arabic.  I've seen ISO 8859-6 and unicode alphabets,
> but not ASCII.  I know physically representing arabic in a readable form
> is impossible with ASCII, but I would think a transcription alphabet would
> exist.  I'm really in the dark about language representation, and my goal
> is a side-by-side comparison of text samples.   Can anyone give me any
> pointers?  

Jason,

the Arabic standard is called  ASMO, check it out. It's used pretty widely.

Andras