Is the Arabic keyboard on Mac missing ذ and ّ ?

Arabic keyboard on a mac

I am posting this in hopes that someone knows how to fix the problem.

About every blue moon I have to type in Arabic. I have little stickers on my keyboard that label the Arabic letters in the normal PC Arabic keyboard. I’m pretty sure everything was working fine last time i typed in Arabic a few months ago.

But I just noticed that the Arabic keyboard on my Mac (OS X 10.6) doesn’t have the ” ذ ” and ” ّ ” keys. They should be mapped to the upper-leftmost key on the keyboard ( ` and ~), but instead I get “٫” and “٬” . I think that’s an apostrophe and a little apostrophe.

Update: To fix the problem go here

4 thoughts on “Is the Arabic keyboard on Mac missing ذ and ّ ?

  1. 3azeez

    yeah just once i got excited about they placing the zero now they removed a letter!

    if you have found a way to fixing this problem please let me know!

    thanks.

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  3. Salman

    What about “shadda”? Where did it go on snow leopard keyboard layout? Please help =(