Getting Arabic in You P990i and M600

The new Midas in Dujeej/Farwaniya is huge and very well designed and with some great stuff. Really a sight to see.

The new Midas in Dujeej/Farwaniya is huge and very well designed and with some great stuff. Really a sight to see.

Barrack and other Sony Ericsson retailers in Kuwait are currently charging 10kd for bad Arabic support on your P990i and M600 phones, prosthetic when all they are doing it copying over some Window fonts and that you can do it at home for FREE.

So after reading this post change the system font for P990/M600 to find out where to place the fonts folder in the memory card like how it was on UIQ2/P910i.

You just take took the Tahoma.ttf font from Windows Fonts directory (or just search for tahoma.ttg) and copy it 4 times and then rename each file to:

Sans-Serif_Latin-Regular.TTF
Sans-Serif_Latin-Italic.TTF
Sans-Serif_Latin-BoldItalic.TTF
Sans-Serif_Latin-Bold.TTF

Then placed them in your memory card under the directory of Resource/Fonts (You may have to create it).

Restart

Tada

This will give you the ability to read Arabic. The only problem is that you lose Bold and Italic font styles and the font is bigger in the system.

It isn’t a perfect fix, but a quick one till I can find a font that has the 4 font styles and Arabic structure in it.

Hating the Arabic World Cup Commentary

The Arabic commentary for the World Cup games is driving me crazy the guy is speaking out of his ass and just goes off on tangents and I dont know what. He just doesn’t shut up.

I saw on the bottom of the game that there is a way to switch to English commentary by going to WolrdCup.3 at a certain frequency but can’t seem to find it

Anyone know how to get it working for English?

Update: Finally some how it automagically showed up after searching and adding. It was so nice to hear a nice British commentator giving nice tidbits, physician being quiet when nothing was going on and giving a respectable commentary.

I am a Quote to Wall Street Journal!

Kuwait has started using robot jockeys for their camel races.
Kuwait has started using robot jockeys for their camel races.
Big thanks to McArabian for pointing this out, illness cause I read the first two paragraphs on my phone last night and stopped.

The Wall Street Journal has quoted my Sham Crap post on the Arabized Simpsons in their article: – D’oh! Arabized Simpsons Aren’t Getting Many Laughs.

Sham-crap

NFL is back on Orbit ESPN. My picks for the season are:

NFL is back on Orbit ESPN. My picks for the season are:


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It just boggles the mind on what these people can do. I think that is why I love it to so much, she is the epitome of branding. She never gets old, won’t be in rehab, will just be perfect and smiling and whoring herself out to every type of merchandise.

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NFL is back on Orbit ESPN. My picks for the season are:


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It just boggles the mind on what these people can do. I think that is why I love it to so much, she is the epitome of branding. She never gets old, won’t be in rehab, will just be perfect and smiling and whoring herself out to every type of merchandise.

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Like Symbols I saw the MBC ad for the Simpsons aka (Shamsooms) in Arabic and have to say it is going to be just crap.

First that it is going to be in Ramadan, approved so all those episodes where Homer (Omar) is drinking beers (which is like a majority of them), ascariasis or going to Moes and such will most likely be gone. So dont expect the Flaming Moes episode, or this:

Homer: Got any of that beer that has candy floating in it? You know, Skittlebrau?
Apu: Such a beer does not exist, sir. I think you must have dreamed it.
Homer: Oh. Well, then just give me a six-pack and a couple of bags of Skittles.

or Barney

Barney: Hmm… someone spillt beer into this ashtray!

Then you have the ones involving the church and God. That will go of well I am sure during Ramadan, so those are going to be gone. Might as well say good bye to Rev. Lovejoy.

Rev. Lovejoy: Get a divorce.
Helen: Hmm, hmm.
Marge: Isn’t that a sin?
Rev. Lovejoy: Marge, everything is a sin. (holds out Bible) Have you ever sat down and read this thing? Technically, we’re not allowed to go to the bathroom.

How about Flanders?

“Hi-diddly-ho, neighbors!”

How the hell are they going to translate that?

Or this great quote:

Mr Burns: Oooh, so Mother Nature needs a favor?! Well maybe she should have thought of that when she was besetting us with droughts and floods and poison monkeys! Nature started the fight for survival, and now she wants to quit because she’s losing. Well I say, hard cheese.

That is classic Simpson’s dialoge having that translated if possible will just ruin the whole flow of it!

Seriously there are certain shows that shouldn’t be over dubbed to Arabic and just definately not Egyptian dialect. Look at the Japanese cartoons they would show us in the 80s, they didn’t have any certain dialect to them. They were straight up Arabic so that everyone could understand and appreciate. I am sure the effort the people who made this show to translate it to Arabic could have made a good orignal show about an Egyptian family living in Egypt, dealing with religon, life and work and trying to keep a family together. That way they can prouldly say made in Egypt, instead of Made in USA assembled in Egypt.