I think with a large and less subtle font (perhaps the sort that would be used in an Arabic child's book?) I could learn to read code written like this without necessarily having knowledge of Arabic beyond some fundamentals and the vocab needed for the few keywords. The best bet in the long run, if my career depended on it, would undoubtedly be to buckle down and learn Arabic though, and being mono-lingual that seems like an absolutely insurmountable task.
Input would be a whole other story, I wouldn't even know where to start.
Input's not that hard. I typed this out from a few days' study and a bit of playing around a few years (10 or so?) back: http://pratyeka.org/arabic/
(I was somewhat disgusted to see vast quantities of US military domain based visitors as the wars scaled up)
Arabic is kind of like the Roman family of scripts or the Abugidas of India/Southeast Asia in that there are actually many related scripts with mostly common symbols and a common heritage.
Case in point: (Chagatai) Uighur. http://www.omniglot.com/writing/uyghur.htm ... or Farsi ... ie. definitely worth investing some time in to this script family, or teaching children a little about, certainly if you travel, or study history or art at all.
I think with a large and less subtle font (perhaps the sort that would be used in an Arabic child's book?) I could learn to read code written like this without necessarily having knowledge of Arabic beyond some fundamentals and the vocab needed for the few keywords. The best bet in the long run, if my career depended on it, would undoubtedly be to buckle down and learn Arabic though, and being mono-lingual that seems like an absolutely insurmountable task.
Input would be a whole other story, I wouldn't even know where to start.