India has developed its own fonts for use on personal computers and mobile phones, benefiting 15 crore Urdu speaking people in the country. India has developed its own fonts for use on personal ...

Apple recently released iOS 11 and the latest operating has promised a host of new features for your iPhone or iPad. Among all the new nifty features, one thing that grabbed our attention is Apple’s ...

Technology Development for Indian Languages Programme (TDIL) of DeitY (Department of Electronics and IT) has developed Urdu language fonts and keyboard drivers for Windows and Android. The fonts ...

Native speakers of the Urdu language instinctively know that the language is read from right to left but the numerical values mentioned within an Urdu sentence are read from left to right. To the ...

Zeerak Ahmed has spent years in the U.S., working for some of the world’s biggest tech companies. But one thing he has grown frustrated with is how “computing treats non-Latin languages as second ...

In the world of Urdu, few can match Aslam Kiratpuri’s feat. No, he has not penned tomes of poetry. His achievement is fundamental, concerning font, ligatures (syllables) and word-building. Father of a ...

NASTA’LEEQ, also spelt nastaliq, is considered the most beautiful of all hands used in Persian and Urdu calligraphy. But using this style of penmanship for writing Urdu with the help of mechanical ...

KARACHI: Nearly eight months after Apple introduced an Urdu keyboard for its mobile devices, it has gone ahead to incorporate the Nastaleeq font, widely used in the sub-continent. As part of its iOS9 ...

Abdul Ghaffar inspects the line of Urdu I have written and then bursts into laughter. “To me, people like you who know how to read and write Urdu in normal script are padhe hue (literate). Not padhe ...