This feature constantly adapts to your spelling style and does not require an internet connection. While this feature is active the cursor will be a reddish color. To enable automatic transliteration, hit ⌘Y or go to Script > Automatic Arabish Transliteration. What this simply means is that, for example, typing 'Ahlan' will automatically replace it with أهلًا in the document and so on. Katib has a built-in feature that allows automatic transliteration of the 'Arabish' way of transcribing Arabic. So you can for example open 2 documents, write one in English and the other in Arabic, and OS X will remember the keyboard association for each. We like to use the default ⌘Space for this purpose.Įnabling Automatically switch to a document's input source will allow you to maintain an input language per document. Here you can define a shortcut for switching to the previous/next input source language.

In OS X Language & Text > Input Sources.On the left sidebar, click on Input Source. In OS X >= 10.9: go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts.Use a shortcut to switch between languages: Arabic is denoted by the green crescent or isolated ع depending on your OS X version. English is denoted by either the U.S flag or similar. Now, whenever you need to type Arabic, you'll be able to select the Arabic keyboard from the menu bar. If using OS X = 10.9, click on the + icon, locate the 'Arabic' entry and add it.If using OS X >= 10.9: click on Keyboard.from the Apple  menu in the top left corner. However, if you wish to type in Arabic you must enable an Arabic keyboard layout. Typing Arabic on Mac How to enable the Arabic keyboard on MacĪll OS X versions are able to display Arabic perfectly fine.

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