Tools for translating Persian/Arabic texts
http://www.emacswiki.org/johnw/TranslationTools.html
Summary of tools available:
aasaan: Transliteration scheme for accurate and easy encoding of Persian/Arabic texts.
chaap: Tool to publish texts entered in aasaan format to HTML/Unicode or ArabTeX.
lughat: Tool to aid in the creation and printing of glossaries.
justan: Tool for searching Steingass.
steingass: An ASCII copy of Steingass using aasaan encoding, and in the lughat format.
You may download this collection of tools as a ZIP file.
You will need a Perl interpretor to execute these scripts. There is a free, nicely packaged version of perl at ActiveState. They have versions for Windows, Linux and Solaris.
NOTE: All of these tools are newly created, and may still have kinks. Please e-mail me with any problems that you find, or send suggestions for improvement to johnw@gnu.org. Thank you!