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How do you put in diacritics (tashkil)? Can you use a regular English keyboard and do phonetic transliteration?

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That is possible under Mac if you use the "Arabic QWERTY" keyboard. See this link for instructions http://katibapp.com/help/arabic-on-mac/#learnersofarabicwill...

Additionally, you can use the "Keyboard Viewer" when Arabic is selected as a keyboard layout and hold shift. This will show you which keys render diacritics.