[Bug 1153188] Re: Urdu with better support: Default Fonts, Kbd Layout

[Shabbir Ahmed]

The official Font for urdu is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasta%CA%BFl%C4%ABq_script

Nasta Liq, all the news papers universities text books school college
materials all are printed in this font.

here is the officially made font and checked by a famous calligrapher, 
http://www.crulp.org/software/localization/Fonts/nafeesNastaleeq.html

The font could be downloaded from the same place,

If you want i can personally go and meet them make a report and update
you.

Gunnar,
About the keyboard lay out there are many and we are talking about the default, as to type in english you simply click into a text area and start typing, where as in urdu you have to do some effort which a common computer user is not aware of, so i think we have to simplify things for him, if he clicks into a place to type in urdu he simply selects the urdu and start typing the easiest way or the more easy he  can achieve his task.

This would be the 
http://www.crulp.org/software/localization/keyboards/CRULPphonetickbv1.1.html

which already is in ubuntu named Urdu (Pakistan, CRULP),

Urdu (Pakistan, CRULP) is phonetic keyboard layout and all the ppl who
use special software to write urdu and then convert it into image format
(most in-page is used) and the keyboard layout is called phonetic.

kindly sujjest further.

thank you,

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Title:
  Urdu with better support:  Default Fonts, Kbd Layout

Status in “fontconfig” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Default fonts in Ubuntu show ugly Urdu text.

  It's better that language-selector sets "Nafees Regular" (Nafees Web
  in fonts-nafees package) as default font for all font families
  (SansSerif, Serif...except mono) used in Ubuntu.

  I would like to ask, if language-selector is able to set specific
  keyboard layout for Urdu for 1st time?

  Please Shabbir:
  Could you write here the best setting for Urdu Fonts (Using "Tweak Tool": Scale Factor, Hinting, Anitaliasing, Size)?

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