On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 01:42, Caryl Bigenho <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi... > > If one had a simple overlay with the Urdu keyboard symbols on it, what would > be the exact procedure for switching the keys to Urdu? I tried in My > Settings-> Keyboard-> Urdu -> Urdu Pakistan, but the result was a lot of > little squares with symbols in them... maybe hex code? They look similar to > what I have seem from some of my multilingual acquaintances on Facebook. > > Anybody know how to do this?
I believe that you only need to install an Urdu font such as ttf-paktype/tehreer. Most Arabic fonts omit several letters needed in Urdu. I have appended a screen capture from Sugar on Ubuntu. > Caryl > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep -- Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. http://www.earthtreasury.org/
<<attachment: PakType Tehreer keys.png>>
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