[Bug 1153188] Re: Urdu with better support: Default Fonts, Kbd Layout

2013-03-21 Thread Shabbir Ahmed
for keyboard layout the best option to compare things with is google urdu translitration, it is the most easiest keyboard layout. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.ne

[Bug 1153188] Re: Urdu with better support: Default Fonts, Kbd Layout

2013-03-21 Thread Shabbir Ahmed
I support this statement, What if you replace "Urdu Nastaliq Unicode" with "Nafees Nastaleeq"? the answer is yes. this font should display urdu text even if urdu package is not installed. There is some default font thats why we can see/read urdu at least. Udu Nastaliq Unicode is not well support

[Bug 1153188] Re: Urdu with better support: Default Fonts, Kbd Layout

2013-03-19 Thread Shabbir Ahmed
These days I'm researching different fonts and keyboard layouts and talking to URDU experts, The current defacto standard considered is "InPage" http://www.inpage.com/Download.html. They make their own versions of fonts, like the version of nastaleeq that InPage makes is called "Noori Nastaleeq".

[Bug 1153188] Re: Urdu with better support: Default Fonts, Kbd Layout

2013-03-12 Thread Shabbir Ahmed
The official Font for urdu is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasta%CA%BFl%C4%ABq_script Nasta Liq, all the news papers universities text books school college materials all are printed in this font. here is the officially made font and checked by a famous calligrapher, http://www.crulp.org/software