Urdu language digitization

[Shabbir Ahmed]

ahan thanks alot for the reply, yes thats what i am talking about the
default keyboard layouts in operating systems and the default fonts are not
helpfull, thats what i want that every one should be able to read and write
urdu. yes i can send you our official (country) site where you can, not
only find font but keyboard lay out as well, made for windows machines. but
i can help you porting it to linux.

http://www.crulp.org/software/localization/Fonts/nafeesWebNaskh.html
this is the link to font, if it's source is not available I can work for
and make it work again ...

you can read and download other thing related to urdu.
http://www.crulp.org/software/localization.htm

if you want to discuss it in more detail i am available.

thank you,
Shabbir.


On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 1:05 PM, Yaron Shahrabani <sh.yaron at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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