Comment 2 for bug 1153188

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Shabbir Ahmed (shabbir1282) wrote : Re: Urdu with better support: Default Fonts, Kbd Layout

I can explain every thing here in detail,

we have two issues here,

1. Reading Urdu Text:

the default font for Urdu is SanSerif and others font only made on emphasis on english language that's why the text displayed is not easily readable, we cant change the text as we don't have a font already installed for URDU. This is the main reason all the news papers and every other thing published or posted on internet are in image format. The result is image takes longer to download, mobile view is not good, u cant zoom in as at a point the text with go rubish. you cant search any thing inside an image (text). google is not helpfull in case you want to search for something that is ur requirement. The only current way that i use with my web site is CSS3 font download.

2. Writing Urdu: the default keyboard layout is not wat it has to be. we need to download and install third party keyboard layouts that is called "phonetic keyboard layout". Most of the characters in english and urdu are same like the char 'S' and 'seen' in urdu and arabic. now it makes sense that S should type 'SEEN' but it doesnt, rather it prints un realistic characters. the best option google has created for this is google translitration which works same as phonetic keyboard.

I am available if more explaination or help is required.

thanks for listening to our problems.