Urdu language digitization

[Yaron Shahrabani]

Hi Shabbir!

I actually investigated some Linux issue about Urdu fonts in Chromium and
Firefox, apparently the default fonts doesn't work correctly.

Can you name a single open source font that can be the default for Urdu?

I can't read Urdu very well but since I can understand Arabic I can see
what letters might be wrong or misleading.

What else can you tell us about Urdu support in computerized systems?

Yaron Shahrabani

<Hebrew translator>



On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Shabbir Ahmed <shabbir1282 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I love open source, here I explain how i want to contribute. actually i am
> looking for a way to tell wat im upto.
>
> I belong to Pakistan her Urdu language is spoken and understood, many of
> the ppl want to use web but they cant use it just bcaz they dont understand
> english, every thing that is published in urdu here is in the format of
> images over the internet and you can understand issues with a text
> published as an image over the web, the text takes longer to download, cant
> search, u cant search for a inside word from google etc. my wish is that we
> together work for those who want to use the web and use it right in their
> own language. theres support already included many browsers and OS but that
> is not standard, the font is not it has to be to be more readable. for urdu
> any time browsed via internet should hv a default font which is our
> national font call nastaleeq. this font is used for every news paper in our
> country and all the official publishing. Please guide how can you help me
> further improve the web experience and bring more ppl to internet from
> countries like us. we can further talk find ways to move forward.
>
> this is my dream I shall be thankful i guess this is a charity, bring them
> closer to the world and increase their knowledge.
>
> thank you,
>
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