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

[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".

The best of all public implementations so far i found is Nafees
Nastaleeq I mentioned in my above reply. it has an issue in that the
text clarity in different font sizes is not same(distorted text like if
you type something in large size on a low resolution display), in few
sizes the text displays is not that best clear "like it does if you copy
from Inpage" to an image format and view them in a browser.


the best till i found is Nafees Nastaleeq, which is at least supported. there are many other versions of Nastaleeq available but not well supported.

the other good fonts available are Nafees Web etc.

Thanks,

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Title:
  Urdu with better support:  Default Fonts, Kbd Layout

Status in “fontconfig” package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in “gnome-control-center” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in “language-selector” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Default fonts in Ubuntu show ugly Urdu text.

  It's better that language-selector sets "Nafees Regular" (Nafees Web
  in fonts-nafees package) as default font for all font families
  (SansSerif, Serif...except mono) used in Ubuntu.

  I would like to ask, if language-selector is able to set specific
  keyboard layout for Urdu for 1st time?

  Please Shabbir:
  Could you write here the best setting for Urdu Fonts (Using "Tweak Tool": Scale Factor, Hinting, Anitaliasing, Size)?

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