Urdu language digitization

[Sneetsher]

Concerning Layout,

Ubuntu lists 6 ur kdb layouts, see attached screenshot , or run (man
xkeyboard-config | grep -i urdu) in terminal.

Searching web, not all pages mentions same layout.

This on Wikipidia about Ubuntu Urdu localisation:
https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%B9%D8%A7%D9%88%D9%86%D8%AA:Ubuntu_Linux_Localization#cite_note-2

Also this which have links at bottom linking to gnome, kde, x11
configuration
https://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Urdu_Keyboard

Could I ask kbd use status: which one used by government universities...?
So we carry on with most useful one.

Kind Regards,
Abdellah Ch.

On Sat, Mar 9, 2013 at 2:24 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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