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/localization/Fonts/nafeesNastaleeq.html The font could be downloaded from the same place, If you want i can personally go and meet them make a report and update you. Gunnar, About the keyboard lay out there are many and we are talking about the default, as to type in english you simply click into a text area and start typing, where as in urdu you have to do some effort which a common computer user is not aware of, so i think we have to simplify things for him, if he clicks into a place to type in urdu he simply selects the urdu and start typing the easiest way or the more easy he can achieve his task. This would be the http://www.crulp.org/software/localization/keyboards/CRULPphonetickbv1.1.html which already is in ubuntu named Urdu (Pakistan, CRULP), Urdu (Pakistan, CRULP) is phonetic keyboard layout and all the ppl who use special software to write urdu and then convert it into image format (most in-page is used) and the keyboard layout is called phonetic. kindly sujjest further. thank you, -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1153188 Title: Urdu with better support: Default Fonts, Kbd Layout To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/fontconfig/+bug/1153188/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
