I tried to translate a paragraph but my linguistic knowledge is too poor so I can't even understand the French sentence. If a native english speaker could have a look to provide a better formulation, it could help!
Cheers PY 12:32, Mar 2, 2004 (UTC)
And the layed out talk page on arabic alphabet is not 'up to date' I did a partial translation of the Voyelles paragraphs (the first still in French)
While struggling with some of the French linguistic terminology in this article, I came across: http://www.sil.org/linguistics/glossary_fe/ which may well prove useful for figuring out some of the more esoteric stuff. Bill 16:07, 9 Aug 2003 (UTC)
A French language typography/linguistic glossary has been helpful too: http://alis.isoc.org/glossaire/
About "moteur de rendu": I've used "rendering engine" to translate this phrase. There is a difference between a browser and a rendering engine. All Web browsers use a "rendering engine" to process the received, encoded HTML and present the results on a users computer display screen. -- Bill 13:04, 10 Aug 2003 (UTC)
About the article title: I suspect the use of a foward slash in the title is what's causing the anomaly at the top of the Talk page. Should be move the article to "Arabic alphabet from the French Wikipedia"? Bill 13:06, 10 Aug 2003 (UTC)
I'm stuck on "liants". A "liant" is an invisible character which influences the behavior of neighboring characters. A "liant avec chasse" forces two characters to abut one-another. A "liant sans chasse" inhibits this behavior. All well and good, but I dont' know the English for these. Can anyone help? -- Bill 13:39, 10 Aug 2003 (UTC)
My French is not too bad and I have a slight familiarity with linguistics, but I think the result of our translation should be reviewed by someone with linguistic training, and preferably with a knowledge of Arabic. At least if there's any way to get this to happen. Bill 13:12, 10 Aug 2003 (UTC)
French support is the equivalent of English carrier, a silent letter whose function is to bear another character. Hamza often needs a carrier, which may be, according to complexe rules, أ, ؤ or ئ. In this case, the 'alif, waaw or yaa' are mute letter : only hamza is pronounced. Vincent Ramos 12:45, 15 Sep 2003 (UTC)