Urdu language digitization

Sat Mar 9 17:21:22 UTC 2013

For font,
fonts-nafees (contains only one font,
http://packages.ubuntu.com/source/quantal/fonts-nafees), I have compared
it, it is the same as this one with same version:
http://www.crulp.org/software/localization/Fonts/nafeesWebNaskh.html

Could you please show me a page as an example to test my side too?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/ BBC uses CSS3 to use web font instead of
installed ones in users desktop.

http://font.urduweb.org/ &
http://anl4u.com/blog/install-urdu-fonts-in-linux-ubuntu-opensuse/ collects
many Urdu fonts for downloads if if they have license supports
distributing. May be they could be packaged at least as non-free.

On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 5:04 PM, Sneetsher <sneetsher at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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