Arabic keyboard#Mac Arabic Keyboard

The Arabic keyboard ({{langx|ar|لوحة المفاتيح العربية|lawḥat al-mafātīḥ al-ʕarabiyya}}) is the Arabic keyboard layout used for the Arabic alphabet. All computer Arabic keyboards contain both Arabic letters and Latin letters, the latter being necessary for URLs and e-mail addresses. Since Arabic is written from right to left, when one types with an Arabic keyboard, the letters will start appearing from the right side of the screen.

Layouts

Machine a ecrire arabe.png|An Olivetti Lettera 32 typewriter with Arabic keyboard

Arabic_keyboard.jpg|An Apple computer Arabic keyboard

= Arabic typewriter =

The Arabic layout typewriter was first patented by Selim Shibli Haddad, a Syrian artist and inventor.{{cite web|last1=Messenger|first1=Robert|title=The Arabic Typewriter Keyboard and the Syrian Artist|url=http://oztypewriter.blogspot.ru/2014/10/the-arabic-typewriter-keyboard-and.html|website=oz.Typewriter|date=17 October 2014}} A British patent was filed three months later, on 1 December 1899, by Philippe Waked, the first person to type a document in Arabic.{{Cite web|url=https://kerningcultures.com/a-tale-of-two-inventors/|title = A Tale of Two Inventors - KC Website| date=6 October 2019 }} Both patents expired in 1919, prompting mass production in both Egypt and abroad.Zeina Dowidar & Ahmed Ellaithy [https://medium.com/@kerningcultures/the-invention-of-the-arabic-typewriter-a6d26e0554a The Invention of the Arabic Typewriter], 31 October 2019, Kerning Cultures

File:Arabic typewriter keyboard layout.svg