I always had a problem with Arabic HTML emails. They don't specify the encoding.

I'm using mutt (Yes!) as my mail reader. HTML emails can be handled using lynx and a mailcap entry like this:

Arabic is somehow a complex language when it comes to computer processing, It requires certain capabilities from the rendering and processing engines.
I'd consider 2 things to be the most important things, BiDi and Shaping, While Shaping deals with the different forms of a letter according to its position in the word, BiDi deals with the arrangement of embedded Arabic and English words.

It all started with a question from Amr Gharbeia
"Why are we working on an Arabic spell checker ?, Why not a wordlist for aspell ?"
Oh, That's a simple question but it changed a lot of things.

As of today, The 12th of February 2005, The CVS now holds the new Baghdad code, I've dumped the old code and data files.

I don't know why I'm writing this.
I've been envolved with Arabic for the last few years.
During the last few weeks I've started to realize the problems with Arabic, Noot only when it comes to text processing by the computer, But For non native Arabic speakers and even for native Arabic speakers like us.