I think the issue here is not with fonts or Unicode, but with the fact that
the language is written in two different scripts, which don't have (and
maybe can't have) a script converter between them.

Am So., 6. Aug. 2023 um 09:29 Uhr schrieb Gerard Meijssen <
[email protected]>:

> Hoi,
> In the past the Wikimedia Foundation paid for the development of
> characters that became part of Unicode. Missing characters in an existing
> characterser are "easy. More complicated is to populate fonts withe these
> added characters..At the time the design of a non-Unicode font was used
> with permission.
> thanks,
>      Gerard
>
> On Sat, 5 Aug 2023 at 16:22, Mark Williamson <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> It's actually possible to automatically convert between Devanagari and
>> Urdu scripts, but it would require quite a lot of work. It's not a trivial
>> task with straightforward character-to-character correspondences like
>> Serbian, but it is possible and it has been done (not within Wikimedia, but
>> by researchers in India)
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 4, 2023, 4:21 AM MF-Warburg <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Please see the comment signed Ameen Akbar at <
>>> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Requests_for_new_languages/Wikipedia_Haryanvi
>>> >.
>>>
>>> There seems to be only one ISO code but two (incompatible?) writing
>>> systems. Thoughts?
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