- From: Etienne Kroger <etienne.kroger@welocalize.com>
- Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 10:09:27 -0500
- To: "'Najib Tounsi'" <ntounsi@emi.ac.ma>, <www-international@w3.org>
There is an interisting discrepancy in user perception here. American users tend to lump what French call Afrique du Nord, Proche-Orient, and Moyen-Orient (or Maghreb and Machreck) in one big category called Middle East. -----Original Message----- From: www-international-request@w3.org [mailto:www-international-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Najib Tounsi Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 8:05 AM To: www-international@w3.org Subject: script faq suggestions May be you could add the following line Country/Region: North Africa, Script:Arabic Direction: RTL Language:Arabic to http://www.w3.org/International/questions/qa-scripts.html#directions Geographicaly, the whole north Africa is (from right to left) Egypt, Lybia, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco and Mauritania. The official language in all those countries is Arabic. Note: Egypt and Lybia are generally classed as Middle-East, and North Africa thus includes the four countries Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco (and Mauritania more or less). These four countries are also called The Maghreb. There is also a local language, the Berbere, spoken mainly in some regions in Algeria and Morocco. Regards Najib Tounsi -- Najib TOUNSI (mailto:tounsi@w3.org) W3C Office in Morocco (http://www.w3c.org.ma) Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingénieurs, BP 765 Agdal-RABAT Maroc (Morocco) Phone: +212 (0) 37 68 71 74 Fax : +212 (0) 37 77 88 53 Mobile: +212 (0) 61 22 00 30
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