You can actually also use Arabic in venerable NCSA Telnet, at least in version 2.7beta (the last one there probably will ever be). A practical application for this if you want to read Arabic Web pages in the text-based Lynx browser from a Unix-based host, or read Arabic email in a host-based mail program. You must select an Arabic font from the font menu and No encoding from the Translation menu. Arabic will then appear correctly, but of course any non-English text or symbols on the screen will also appear as Arabic characters. However, it works surprisingly well.http://www.hf-fac.uib.no/smi/ksv/arabnet.html#html. Knut S. Vikor
When you are in NCSA Telnet 2.7b4, go to your server, for example, mine is pub1.tln.org, The Metropolitan Museum in NY is library.met.org, for example, The Greater Detroit Freenet is detroit.freenet.org, for example; then open the server's UNIX mail program--usually PINE and (under the Edit menu) go to "global" and select the Arabic word processor you have. Under the Session menu, go to Translator and choose DEC Multinational. Than, also, under the session menu choose an Arabic font--Telnet only reads the basic Macintosh Arabic font called Gizeh. --Denis 12/27/97