I've an Arabic E64 and would like to know if there is a keyboard short-cut to switch between English and Arabic while entering texting?

Thank you.

There is no Arabic.Rom, sorry. The only "official" language Rom was the BRD.Rom(German), and from that the users made the others. You have some of them on the emulator: HUN.Rom, ESP.Rom and derivates.

I have a real English/Arabic E64 computer, hardware not emulator. I can type in the word processor using English letters. I'm asking how can I switch the input language into Arabic?

Thank you.

The BRD.Rom addition was a lucky event forced by language restrictive laws on Germany just at the Enterprise launching times.

I'm pretty sure that's an urban legend - I can't remember anything that would have forced computer manufacturers to produce German keyboards or ROMs (other than Germany being an attractive market back then).

Tobias

There are other proofs of these laws, they where no legends. For example, some German models have a paper sticker over the ENTERPRISE, ONE TWO EIGHT one, saying ENTERPRISE and "128K" on big numbers.

Here on Spain there where similar laws on that era.

Here you can read more about it.


Quote from: Werner Lindner(Former director of Enterprise Computers GMB):
"Egypt:
The Egypt importer was Computer Technical Co. in Cairo. The founder and M.D. was Mr. Nabil Lashine. He had already bought about 500 ENTERPRISE 64k machines from England. He imported them to Egypt and sold them as electronic typewriters to other companies. He was not interested in games or other ancillaries, because he couldn't sell them (nobody in Egypt could afford a home computer for private purposes at that time). He made his own software for the computer and did the green keyboard print by himself. He bought additional 64k machines from us, but there was only appr. one shipment per year and not more than 150 machines (25 boxes á 6 computers). He also got appr. 500 empty cartridges from us. He always payed with monthly cheques. Sometimes it took long to get the money, but he was very reliable. His last order was in 1993, last contact to him in 1994. At this time his company was in big trouble and his bank had the hands on his remaining stock of EC machines. I've never heard of him afterwards, but I still have a complete set of printed keys, that he gave me while he was visiting us in Munich. All in all I think that 4000 units is too much - I personally know only about 1500 units, incl. the machines from England (but maybe Latchu has sold something to him directly)."

Probably a loadable Arabic character set existed, but unfortunately there is no known piece of it.

But making the Arabic characters type right-to-left would be a bit more of a challenge!

A hacked VIDEO: device is needed.

Or the monitor has to be turned upside down.