On Sunday 15 October 2006 14:45, Djihed Afifi wrote: > He recommanded translating the non abbbreviated name to arabic, and > then abbreviating the translation using arabic rules. > e.g. IP > Internet Protocol = بروتوكول الإنترنت > IP = ب.إ What should be the abbreviation letters? The first letter or he first letter of the radical? ex: معلم متعامد ممنظم مباشر: مممم ععنب Letter م is very frequent in the beginning of many words in Arabic. Same with ا and أ.
I used here the Persian ZWNJ (Zero width non joiner), which disjoins letters without a space. Should we use it for Arabic abbreviations and include it in the standard layout? Because the dot takes too much space.
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