Elsanussi Mneina's Utilities

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Tasks involving European languages

• Spell out using NATO Phonetic Alphabet
• Type using Dvorak keyboard layout without installing

Type text in....

• French (Type and Click)
• German (Type and Replace)
• German (Type and Click)
• Hebrew + cantillation diacritics (Type and Replace)
• Arabic + diacritics (Type and Replace)
• Icelandic (Type and Replace)
• Icelandic (Type and Click)
• Irish (Type and Replace)
• Irish (Type and Click)
• Latin (Type and Replace)
• Latin (Type and Click)
• Maltese (Type and Replace)
• Maltese (Type and Click)
• Polish (Type and Replace)
• Polish (Type and Click)
• Scottish-gaelic (Type and Replace)
• Scottish-gaelic (Type and Click)
• Spanish (Type and Replace)
• Spanish (Type and Click)
• Portuguese (Type and Replace)
• Portuguese (Type and Click)

Tasks involving Arabic

• Remove Arabic Diacritics
• Westernize Numerals
• Learn Arabic letters
• Type Arabic text (in Arabic script) without installing

Tasks involving romanization of Arabic

ISO 233

This is an International Standard for transliteration of Arabic text. It requires special fonts, and Unicode, but has reasonably readable choices once the font is selected. It can also represent Arabic script minutiae like the placement of hamza, which does not affect pronunciation.

• Type romanized Arabic according to International Standard Organization 233 (ISO-233) using type and replace combinations
• Type romanized Arabic according to International Standard Organization 233 (ISO-233) using type and click

Buckwalter

This is a practical system for transliteration of Arabic for programming tasks, where readability is not important. Its main feature is that it is strictly one-to-one: that is one character in Arabic corresponds to one ASCII character. It is named after its inventor.

• Type mdrsp and get the Arabic word for school. (Buckwalter transliteration) (Type, and Replace)
• Type the Arabic word for school and get mdrsp. (Buckwalter transliteration) (Type, and Replace)

My transliteration Systems

One Apostrophe

A way of typing Arabic using plain ASCII characters, but without using numeral symbols for sounds.

• Type Arabic script by typing plain Latin letters (using one apostrophe transliteration system)

H-slash System

This system uses digraphs but tries as much as possible to conform to practices used in an official orthographies of Europe. It is very much influenced by Maltese orthography, but I had to invent many new digraphs to represent Arabic sounds. It is designed to only require a Maltese keyboard layout. When I could not find a way to represent a sound in Maltese, I used some knowledge of linguistics and if I could not find a precedent in Maltese, I used Spanish orthography as another source for precedence.

Unlike other transliteration systems which try to be internally consistent, but end up inventing characters not used in any European languages. This one tries to follow precedents in known European languages where possible, and avoids inventing new characters.

• Type Arabic script by typing Latin letters (including Maltese special characters)

Tasks involving transliteration between Arabic and Hebrew scripts

• Convert Arabic Script to Hebrew Script

Tasks involving transliteration between Arabic and Old South Arabian scripts

• Convert Arabic Script to Old South Arabian Script (musnad)

Tasks involving Tamazight

• Type Tamazight in Latin characters (Type and Replace)
• Type Tamazight in Latin characters (Type and Click)

Tasks involving Modern South Arabian Languages

• Type Mehri or Soqotri in Arabic Script (Type and Replace)
• Type Mehri or Soqotri in Arabic Script (Type and Click)

Tasks involving Mandarin Chinese

• Type Pinyin (Romanization of Mandarin Chinese) (Type and Replace)
• Type Pinyin (Romanization of Mandarin Chinese) (Type and Click)

Tasks involving French

• Remove French Diacritics (v1.0)

Misc.

Practice typing any text

Purpose of this page

Be useful to the general public. Currently, it contains alterate ways to type text of different languages, and one educational game. This is a hobby project, that I work on from time to time to practice software development, and to act as a portfolio for career purposes.

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