An apparatus for recording or. Reproducing data or. Information in arab document

摘要

An apparatus for recording data in arabic script is disclosed. Arabic script is written from right to left and characters of arabic script are written in two forms referred to as short form and full form with few exceptions. Each character of the arabic script is stored temporarily in a store before recording. A character having both short and full forms is recorded from the store in short form when followed by another character and in full form when followed by a space.