[Desktop-packages] [Bug 1153188] Re: [FFe] Urdu with better support: Default Fonts

2014-04-06 Thread Shabbir Ahmed
@mamoor, my skype id is s3219080190. lets discuss ubuntu installation there... -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fonts-nafees in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1153188 Title: [FFe] Urdu with better support:

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

2014-03-19 Thread Shabbir Ahmed
let me do it again but i think i did so before and pasted the results but any how let me do it again. On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 7:46 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson gunna...@ubuntu.comwrote: Hi Shabbir, Sorry for having been quiet for a while. Well, nothing has been changed in 13.04 yet, since we

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

2013-05-03 Thread Shabbir Ahmed
did I do any thing wrong? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to fontconfig in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1153188 Title: Urdu with better support: Default Fonts, Kbd Layout Status in Fontconfig - Font

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

2013-04-22 Thread Shabbir Ahmed
I downloaded ubuntu 13.04, ran it as virtual machine and accessed facebook.com, tried to view text in urdu but the font is still not 'noori nastaleeque'. images are attached as reference. thank you, Shabbir. On Sat, Apr 13, 2013 at 6:11 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson gunna...@ubuntu.comwrote: Well,

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

2013-04-13 Thread Shabbir Ahmed
Hi, I need to ask wat are we up to? thanks, On Wed, Apr 3, 2013 at 4:18 PM, Bug Watch Updater 1153...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: ** Changed in: fontconfig Importance: Medium = Wishlist -- You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug report.

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

2013-03-25 Thread Shabbir Ahmed
thanks alot give some time for testing :). On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson gunna...@ubuntu.comwrote: Abdellah / Shabbir, I have talked with Sebastien Bacher on IRC, and we consider that the proposed changes (see comment #18) are uploaded to Ubuntu 13.04. However, since

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

2013-03-23 Thread Shabbir Ahmed
Sebastien, i couldnt get ur last email. thanks, On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Sebastien Bacher seb...@ubuntu.com wrote: Thanks for the work Gunnar, not sure we have anyone knowing enough about the topic to state what is best there. In any case discussion is ongoing in Debian and it

[Desktop-packages] [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 supported,

[Desktop-packages] [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 Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-control-center in Ubuntu.

[Desktop-packages] [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.

[Desktop-packages] [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,

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

2013-03-10 Thread Shabbir Ahmed
I can explain every thing here in detail, we have two issues here, 1. Reading Urdu Text: the default font for Urdu is SanSerif and others font only made on emphasis on english language that's why the text displayed is not easily readable, we cant change the text as we don't have a font already