Comment 8 for bug 1153188

Thanks for the additional info!

I'm slowly getting the picture.. Please bear with a simple guy from Western Europe. ;-)

As regards fonts, I have proposed that Nafees Nastaleeq is added to the fonts-nafees package. A fonts-nafees build with the change is available in my PPA at https://launchpad.net/~gunnarhj/+archive/misc
Can you please install that version of fonts-nafees, and let us know if the proposed change is a step in the right direction.

I see that fonts-nafees is automatically installed when the Urdu language is installed. I also see that /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-nonlatin.conf mentions "Urdu Nastaliq Unicode" for serif and sans-serif.

On 2013-03-10 11:34, عبدالله شلي (Abdellah Chelli) wrote:
> 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.

Do you mean that you would like that "Urdu Nastaliq Unicode" in /etc/fonts/conf.d/65-nonlatin.conf is exchanged for "Nafees Regular"?

On 2013-03-12 14:15, Shabbir Ahmed wrote:
> 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.

As far as I can tell, it is that easy already. If there are more than one keyboard layout activated for a user, e.g. "en" and "ur", s/he can select which one to use via the keyboard layout icon at the top bar.

One aspect of "default" is the keyboard layout that is automatically suggested by the Ubuntu installer when Urdu is the selected language. Is that currently something else but "Urdu (Pakistan, CRULP)"? If so, would you like it to be changed to "Urdu (Pakistan, CRULP)"?

I added a fonts-nafees task to this bug report and marked bug 1153549 as a duplicate of this one. Easier to have it all in the same report.