This article is from the Lebanon FAQ, by Alaa Dakroub dakroub@leb.net with numerous contributions by others.
The standard is called cat (for Classical Arabic Transliteration) and
is the work of Bassem Medawar.
The file can be retrieved from the SoL archive by anonymous ftp to
rama.poly.edu in pub/reader/text/translit/CAT
(a copy is availble on ftp://huez.eurecom.fr/SCL/Transliteration/cat.gz
or
http://huez.eurecom.fr:8080/SCL/Transliteration/cat.gz
[the www.cica.fr, or huez.cica.fr are no more valid]
and on
http://www.ludvigsen.hiof.no/webdoc/levant_servers.html#Language)
 
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