Solaris 8 (Intel Platform Edition) Online Release Notes Update

Missing Arabic Characters and Incompatibility Between the Sun Arabic Keyboard and the Microsoft Arabic Keyboard (4303879)

The following table describes the differences between Sun's Solaris Arabic keyboard and Microsoft's Arabic keyboard.

Key 

Sun's Keyboard Layout 

Microsoft Keyboard Layout 

T 

T 

Arabic Lam_alef with Hamza below 

U 

U 

Right single quotation mark 

I 

I 

Arabic multiplication sign 

O 

O 

Arabic division sign 

A 

; 

Arabic Kasra 

S 

S 

Arabic Kasratan 

Z 

Z 

Tilde 

X 

X 

Arabic Sukun 

C 

Arabic Kasratan 

Left curly bracket 

V 

Arabic Kasra 

Right curly bracket 

M 

Sukun 

Single low qoutation mark 

< 

< 

Arabic comma