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 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.