http://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=14759 Karam Qubsi <karamqubsi@gmail.com> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CC| |karamqubsi@gmail.com --- Comment #23 from Karam Qubsi <karamqubsi@gmail.com> --- Hi , For Arabic, Yes it is true if you deleted all the diacritics ( َ ُ ِ ْ ٍ ٌ ً ) that will be fine in most cases , but in more details the diacritics are affecting the meaning of any word (ie : مُدَرِّسة means a female teacher ) if we alter other diacritics and make it : مَدرَسة , it will mean a school . but in general they are not widely used in our daily life as we can understand the meaning of any word from its context . the ancients Arabs were not using any type of diacritics and it been used only to help the new learner of Arabic language . so if the output will be without any diacritics I think in most cases that would be OK . I hope that helps , -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes.