http://netvouz.com/mcswell/tag/urdu?feed=rss&pg=1 mcswell's bookmarks tagged "urdu" on Netvouz http://openfontlibrary.org/media/files/zahoor/211 Another Nastaleeq font, reputed to render Urdu faster (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nastaleeq). Apparently renders OK in Windows, not so in Ubuntu (see https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/2617). Languages > Indic Languages > Indo-Aryan > Urdu mcswell Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:13:46 GMT https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/people/aca/lailasc/ Professor emeritus, Urdu linguist (and other languages of the area). Website is in Norwegian, but her pubs are mostly in English. Languages > Indic Languages > Indo-Aryan > Urdu mcswell Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:41:05 GMT http://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/om-instituttet/ansatte/vit/lailasc.xml Professor emeritus, Urdu linguist (and other languages of the area). Website is in Norwegian, but her pubs are mostly in English. Languages > Indic Languages > Indo-Aryan > Urdu mcswell Sun, 27 Jan 2008 19:41:05 GMT http:/http://shiva.iiit.ac.in/SPSAL2007/ Workshop on "Shallow Parsing in South Asian Languages." The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers for a discussion on issues pertaining to shallow parsing in South Asian languages. The workshop will be organised against a shared task contest. POS Tagging, chunking for Bengali, Urdu and Telugu. Languages > Indic Languages mcswell Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:56:51 GMT http://http//shiva.iiit.ac.in/SPSAL2007/ Workshop on "Shallow Parsing in South Asian Languages." The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers for a discussion on issues pertaining to shallow parsing in South Asian languages. The workshop will be organised against a shared task contest. POS Tagging, chunking for Bengali, Urdu and Telugu. Languages > Indic Languages mcswell Mon, 20 Nov 2006 17:56:51 GMT http://www.ildc.in/ C-DAC NOIDA-maintained site. According to a press release, they have released 3 CDs for Tamil, Hindi and Telugu, and will release seven more for Assamese, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi and Urdu. The CDs contain true type fonts with keyboard driver, multi-font keyboard engine for true type fonts, unicode compliant open type fonts, unicode compliant keyboard driver, generic fonts code and storage code converter, localised version of Bharateeyaoo, English version of Bharateeyaoo, spellchecker, bilingual dictionary, transliteration tool and language tutor package. The TTF fonts can also be downloaded from http://www.ildc.in/GIST/htm/cd-ttf.htm. Languages > Indic Languages mcswell Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:46:33 GMT http://www.theworld.org/2011/12/will-pakistans-language-be-lost-in-texting-translation/ Texting in Urdu is mostly done with a Latin script Languages > Indic Languages > Indo-Aryan > Urdu mcswell Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:33:51 GMT http://gulf2000.columbia.edu/maps.shtml Maps of Middle East: ethnic, religious, political, language Languages > General Resources mcswell Wed, 05 Sep 2012 20:25:40 GMT http://www.scottcarneyonline.com/blog/2007/02/last-calligraphers.html The vast majority of “printed” Urdu works are hand written. Languages > Indic Languages > Indo-Aryan > Urdu mcswell Sat, 16 Jun 2007 20:56:05 GMT https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/2617 Bug report on problem in rendering the Urdu Pak Nastaleeq font correctly in the Ubuntu version of Linux. Includes screeen shots of Windows (correct) and Ubuntu (incorrect), and a diagnosis of the problem. Languages > Indic Languages > Indo-Aryan > Urdu mcswell Mon, 18 Feb 2008 23:06:47 GMT