Where is arabic keyboard layout with DIGITS in w7???

I just want to know more about what Arabic people expect from their keyboard... like say you wanted hexadecimal with hindi digits... do you have preference of what letters to substitute for digits "A" to "F"... and say you want to kill the current process with a Control-C... what key combination would you like to use on your Arabic keyboard... and does anyone know of a good discussion forum I can join for this?

Well to be honest, I am a native English speaker. I just also do work involving writing and translating the Arabic language. So, personally, I find it easiest if the commands such as CTRL +C stay the same. I also know from experience that the Middle Eastern version of Win7 has commands in the same position as the English versions. If this isn't what you were asking please let me know so i can help out more!

Yes that is exactly the sort of thing I wanted to know... you see I'm trying to write a new terminal emulator that understands about bidirectional text and I wasn't sure what to do with control keys... come to think of it I'm also not sure of the shift and caps lock keys because even though Arabic has 4 different forms for each character there is no way to control it from the keyboard: It all has to be in the display driver apparently.

The digits issue is related to translatable software: Below is picture of same simple little program showing how even the numeric output can be automatically translated when we switch locale... except I didn't know what Arabic people might want to use for digits A and B in numbers with base 12.

@Worksofcraft

When it comes to shift and caps, typing tends to lead to the short vowel characters, probably around 50% of the shift keys on the letters are short vowels or phonetic helpers. However, the numbers shifted stay the exact same. So i think for what you want to do, in order for most people to be happy with what you are making is to keep it the same as the english controls.

@Kari, no its not. Please read the entire thread before posting something like that.

Kari, you aren't reading the posts before you. The issue is that only works in terms of Microsoft Office and other Microsoft Applications (This is caused by the fact that the Keyboard Layout doesn't include hindi digits, but the OS does). Otherwise, Hindi Digits will not work. This is why I made Arabic 103 and posted the download on the first page.


Let me explain visually.

Here is what Microsoft's Arabic 102 looks like on KLC:



And here is what I altered the KLC to do:



If you notice, they don't include the actual Hindi Digits in their KLC, they include Roman Numerals. This means that you have to change every microsoft app to "Context" whenever you want to have the ability to switch between languages and type Hindi Digits. However, with the 103 I made, you can just switch languages and not alter anything in terms of context. 103 Also allows you to use hindi digits on google chrome, firefox and every other program that runs on Windows.

Kari said:

I can understand your frustration, when someone not even understanding Arabic comes here and posts that users don't have to download your layout only to get Arabic numbers, that this feature is natively in Windows 7, but that's not a reason to give wrong information.

Changing the digits as I described, the setting is global; you do not have to do it separately to each program. It also works in every application, not only those from Microsoft. When changed from Regional and Language settings, every single application, Microsoft or third party, uses Arabic digits until the setting is changed to something else.

Just for your information, here's Arabic digits produced as I described in Oracle's OpenOffice Writer:



As far from Microsoft product as possible.

Kari

what version of windows 7 do you use? because that is not that case for mine and judging by the other forum posters (not just this forum) I am not the only one with this issue.

I am not frustrated, but as you can see the OP of this thread tried that when the first person told them to do the exact same thing. It most likely has something to do with windows 7 version, since it seems that the google search results for this issue seem to just produce a bunch of people on 7 Professional who can not seem to get numbers working outside of office.

Additional features include support for Multilingual User Interface (MUI) packages

I am guessing that somehow the MUI for Arabic for 7 professional somehow doesn't include the hindi digits on the keyboard, because the digits were quite literally missing from my KLC.