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@alieteraz - your comments below have been extremely informative and though urdu occupies the collective conscious of all Indians through bollywood (90% of mel
by sandGorgon 12y ago
@alieteraz - your comments below have been extremely informative and though urdu occupies the collective conscious of all Indians through bollywood (90% of melancholic melodies are invariably in urdu), we have never given the script much thought.
I think you fought admirably with Apple, Twitter and Microsoft for getting Urdu fonts included ... but that is the wrong battleground.
The arena for you is simply the browser and mobile . All you need to do is get Nastaliq scripts adopted into Google Webfonts (free for anybody to use in their webapps) and into Android (installing a font through a Launcher theme is incredibly easy [1]. Do NOT try getting it included in the Android base)
do you think you can get together a Kickstarter to fund a nastaliq font, good enough to be usable ? and then try getting them into webfonts and android themes ?
[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pete.app.apexthemes.font.chokycooky&hl=en https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=pete.app.apext... and http://appcrawlr.com/android-apps/best-apps-launcher-fonts http://appcrawlr.com/android-apps/best-apps-launcher-fonts