{"id":388,"date":"2007-06-18T09:48:49","date_gmt":"2007-06-18T09:48:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/akramsrazor\/2007\/06\/18\/arabeng_definit\/"},"modified":"2013-05-07T18:47:12","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T23:47:12","slug":"arabeng_definit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/akramsrazor\/2007\/06\/arabeng_definit\/","title":{"rendered":"Arab\/Eng definitions a mouseclick away with VerbAce"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Just came across a handy program called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbace.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">VerbAce <\/a>that looks up words in Arabic or English and supplies related words with the click of a mouse.<a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbace.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Verbace\" src=\"https:\/\/akramsrazor.typepad.com\/photos\/uncategorized\/2007\/06\/18\/verbace.png\" style=\"margin: 0px 5px 5px 0px;float: right\"><\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve noticed that it doesn\u2019t work equally well with all Arabic-language sites. For example, it works like a charm with the Arabic version of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islamonline.net\/Arabic\/index.shtml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">IslamOnline.net<\/a>, but is (through no fault of its own, I think) useless with Egypt\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ahram-eg.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><em>Al-Ahram<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0 It doesn\u2019t integrate as seamlessly with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.watan.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Al-Watan Al-Arabi<\/a>, but does the trick if you manually copy and paste a word from the page, which admittedly isn\u2019t a terrible hardship.<\/p>\n<p>But these issues are probably not VerbAce\u2019s fault. These sites are each using different HTML encoding\u00a0 schemes for Arabic. Thus, Al-Ahram is gibberish by default in FireFox, while IOL looks normal. Whether that\u2019s bad coding on Al-Ahram\u2019s webmaster\u2019s part or merely encoding geared to Arabic versions of Windows, I don\u2019t know. <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just came across a handy program called VerbAce that looks up words in Arabic or English and supplies related words with the click of a mouse. I\u2019ve noticed that it doesn\u2019t work equally well with all Arabic-language sites. 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