Urdu language digitization

[Shabbir Ahmed]

can i use any script or patch to ubuntu that if a browser see urdu it
should use nafees-font as default. as i browse firefox i cant read the text
easily as it is not in the standard format.

thanks


On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 8:13 PM, Shabbir Ahmed <shabbir1282 at gmail.com> wrote:

> im note sure fonts-nafees, the file names are same but the one i have is
> 286KB where as the one in ubuntu repo is only 86KB.
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Sneetsher <sneetsher at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have just read its license which allow modification, merging &
>> distribution under same license with one exception concerning naming.
>>
>> Is it same font which is already packaged: fonts-nafees made by same
>> center on Ubuntu?
>> Does these fonts work well: fonts-nafees & fonts-paktype, both packaged
>> for Ubuntu?
>>
>> I have no experience about kbd layouts.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Abdellah Ch.
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 11:49 AM, Shabbir Ahmed <shabbir1282 at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> 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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