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The article is great, but I don't think it adequately captures one of the difficulties with this problem, and that is the very high minimum number of characters
by elandybarr 12y ago
The article is great, but I don't think it adequately captures one of the difficulties with this problem, and that is the very high minimum number of characters that must be designed for an Urdu font. I think it is an order of magnitude higher than many would guess it at first.
- jpatokal 12y agoThe Wikipedia article on Nastaliq puts the number at around 20,000. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasta%CA%BFl%C4%ABq_script https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasta%CA%BFl%C4%ABq_script