Kashida?!?!?!

[Chen]

What on earth is "kashida"? When I press Ctrl+F to search a page I see "Match kashida"... I think it's only there on WinXP, I don't remember seeing it with Win2000.

[Jake Bunce]

*me presses CTRL+F*

ooooh, i didn't know about that. nifty!

[nemesis01]

I have XP, I dont get that.

/Feels left out.

meh:mad:

[rylin]

wtf? :P
screenshot please :o

I would assume you're using a localized version of XP, or a semi-localized.

The options that appear in my english version is "Match whole word only" and "Match case" (as well as the directional control).

Match case is for matching a certain casing.
eg searching for "Hey" and having it checked won't return any matches for "hey", "hEY" etc

[Steve Machol]

I run WinXP and no 'Match kashida' for me. :confused:

[CeleronXL]

Wha? Screen shot! :)

[nuno]

http://www.microsoft.com/middleeast/support/kb/windows/1.stm

[Chen]

:eek:

[Pingu]

Umm, I must say that "alef hamza" does sound good if it has a bit of ketchup on the side

[Thomas P]

Yeah, sounds like you have installed some middle eastern Charset... my father has the same options on his "NT4 arabic enabled", not in IE but in Word.

[Chen]

I do use Hebrew, so that might be it. Alef means the letter A in Hebrew, but I have no idea what hamiza means. :confused: