http://blogs.technet.com/tonyso/archive/2009/07/05/more-floors-added-to-the-tower-of-babel-free-as-in-beer-maren-arabic-romanizer.aspxMicrosoft recently released a free-as-in-beer Windows extension that allows you to type Arabic in Roman characters and have it converted on the fly to Arabic script.  Maren integrates seamlessly with Windows and works in most Windows applicationsen-USCommunityServer 2.1 SP1 (Build: 61025.2)