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Table of Contents About This Guide ................................................................... 6 Conventions ......................................................................................................... 6 Introduction ........................................................................... 6 Arabic and Latin Scripts ............................................................ 7 Arabization Mechanisms .......................................................... 9 Your Arabization Environment ............................................................................... 9 Code Sets ........................................................................................................... 9 Contextual Processing ........................................................................................ 11 Control Commands ............................................................... 12 Language Modes ................................................................................................ 12 Major Mode ..................................................................................................... 12 Insertion Mode ................................................................................................ 13 Insertion Level ................................................................................................. 13 Line Mode ....................................................................................................... 14 Scope of Line Mode ........................................................................................ 15 Arabization Mechanisms ..................................................................................... 16 7-Bit with SWCs .............................................................................................. 17 SWC Balancing ............................................................................................... 18 User Defined SWCs ........................................................................................ 18 Double SWCs .................................................................................................. 19 SWC Visibility .................................................................................................. 19 8-Bit with SWCs .............................................................................................. 19 7-Bit with ESC Sequences .............................................................................. 20 8-Bit with ESC Sequences .............................................................................. 20 8-Bit Pure ........................................................................................................ 20 8-Bit Neutral .................................................................................................... 21 Column Heading Mode ................................................................................... 22 Summary of Arabization Mechanisms ............................. 23 Disabling Arabization ...................................................................................... 23 Setting Code Sets ........................................................................................... 23 User Defined Code Set ................................................................................... 24 Numeric Handling ............................................................ 26 Shape of Numerals ......................................................................................... 26 Numeric Sliding ............................................................................................... 26 Numeric Space ................................................................................................ 27 Numeric Field Justification .............................................................................. 28 Blank Digit ....................................................................................................... 29 Numeric Space and Blank Digit Class ............................................................ 29 Arithmetic Operators ....................................................................................... 29 Period in Arabic ............................................................................................... 29 Thousand Separator ....................................................................................... 29 Hindi Digit Two ................................................................................................ 30 Latin Character Display ................................................................................... 30 Upper-Case Printing ........................................................................................ 30 Arabic Character Display ................................................................................ 30 Wide Character Display .................................................................................. 30 Disabling Contextual Processing .................................................................... 31 Lam-Alef Ligature ............................................................................................ 31 Lam-Alef Expand ............................................................................................. 31 Linking Space .................................................................................................. 31 Wrap Around ................................................................................................... 31 Arabic Diacritics .............................................................................................. 32 Diacritics Visibility ............................................................................................ 32 Diacritics Position ............................................................................................ 32 Diacritic Entry .................................................................................................. 32 Shadda Composition ....................................................................................... 32 Fonts ............................................................................................................... 33 Graphics Processing ....................................................................................... 33 Graphics Handling ........................................................................................... 33 Graphics Flipping ............................................................................................ 34 SI/SO Handling ............................................................................................... 34 Printronix Customer Support Center ....................................... 122 Printronix Supplies Department ............................................. 122 Corporate Offices ............................................................... 123 1 Introduction About This Guide This Arabization Guide provides you with information necessary to understand, use, and control your printer for bilingual (Arabic/Latin) printing. This information is common to all Printronix Line Matrix Arabic printers. The Arabization adapter enables Latin printers to produce Arabic text. It provides Latin printers with a true emulation of all bilingual operations available. Conventions The following conventions are used in this document: 1- Characters sent to the printer, look like this: Char. Sent H ELLO These characters arrive sequentially from left to right at the printer. 2- The output of the printer on paper, looks like this: Printout HELLO 3- The abbreviation "SP" stands for the "SPACE" character. 4- When the name of a character, or its abbreviation, is used to indicate that the character was sent to the printer, then the name, or abbreviation, is enclosed between