Urdu language digitization

[Sneetsher]

In firefox: Edit > Preferences > Content > Fonts & colors: Advanced

Font for: try "Other Languages" as there is no Urdu then choose the font
you want.

Let me know if it works or we will if we have to report an issue.

On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 4:17 PM, Shabbir Ahmed <shabbir1282 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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