I stick with 3 and 7 if I have to romanize Arabic words -- especially in smaller print, the apostrophe is no help whatsoever. It's here where I say -- I hate romanized Arabic for this very reason. It's about as clear as concrete when written and the multiple possibilities for the same Arabic letter don't help any (to say nothing about regional variants, as you point out with gh and q).
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Date: 2009-03-03 08:47 pm (UTC)