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Unicode is the future for Urdu and indeed any
language in the world which needs to be represented digitally. To me Unicode
represents a break from all the proprietary encoding formats used for Urdu
before and a future in which all Urdu users will be able to share information
freely with each other irregardless of what platform they use. Linux has been
using Unicode for years and finally its Windows turn to catch up. Oh and Mac
users aren't far behind as well ;)
As a word of note may I say that even though you can now save filenames
with urdu textnames please do not do so as many programs etc WinZip, Nero etc do
not support them.
I won't say much about Unicode here because there are people out there who
have said it better then me. However seeing that I am pushing for a move towards
Unicode in the Urdu community I will present here some links and resources which
you can look up for your own research and curiosity.
Unicode
Consortium
Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources
Multilingual Unicode TrueType
Fonts
SimRedo Java Unicode Editor
Windows
XP Support for Unicode
Urdu
Scratchpad
Tabish's
Urdu Page
The font which I will mainly use
for Urdu Unicode support is Tahoma because it is the one with the best
support for Arabic/Urdu so far. Arial might be a jack of all trades but
sadly is master at none :(
Windows 9x wishing to make WebPages from the Unicode font are
advised to use either U-Trans
or Urdu Scratchpad
or the brilliant program Unipad.
Unipad doesn't have a Urdu Phonetic layout but it does have a Sindhi keyboard
layout for you to download or if you wish you can make your own phonetic layout.
Out of the two proprietary solutions available to Windows 9x
users I personally prefer Urdu Scratchpad because it is more versatile and easier to
use. However if you want to type unicode properly and be able to use it anywhere
I would recommend Unipad.
If you are using Windows XP/2000 they can use Notepad or Word/FrontPage 2000
onwards (BTW if you are using Word 2000 to create web pages and are finding your
pages slow to download then download this
utility which will fix the bug for you by removing un-needed HTML tags: Office
2000 HTML Filter 2.0).
If you are using Unix/Linux then may I point you to a program called SimRedo.
It supports the Arabic keyset irregardless of whether or not your system has it
installed. The more established editor in case you do not know of it is yudit.
I know also of another program called BabelPad
which works well under Windows 2000. I do not know not know how it works under
Win 9x. It might work for you. Let me know if it does.
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