ABSTRACT

Syarifuddin, An Application of the Arabic Font Unicode  for Typing Arabic Texts using the Non-Arabic Keyboard (supervised by Rhiza S. Sadjadand Muh. Tola)

	This is a design project to develop an additional facility of an existing word-processing editor to assist the user of a standard QWERTY keyboard to convert the Latin texts into Arabic.
	The program is developed using the Visual Basic programming tools incorporated into the Microsoft Office 2007's word-processing editor. The implementation test involves a group of standard QWERTY keyboard users from various levels of education, including students and teaching staffs of various schools and universities. A short training is required before the trial. 
	A group of users is asked to make the transliteration of the first 7 (seven) verses of The Holy Qur'an using the program, they make 5.84% mistakes (reaching 94.16% accuracy). When the same group is asked to do the same with various other verses, then the accuracy is improved up to 98.05% or less than 2% of characters and symbols are mistakenly typed.