[Indic-computing-users] Farsi, Urdu, Bangla... and neighbourhood news

[Frederick N. (FN) <fr...@by...>]

News from the South Asian region. Might be of interest to those working on 
similar language issues in India. Is anyone working on Urdu here? FN

On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Tee Emm wrote:


> Farsi and Urdu are very similar - so much so that an urdu-wala can go on 
> reading farsi until he hit a few words that is foreign to him and the 
> same goes for farsi-walas. Parsnigar is a persian wordprocessor which 
> can be used for writing urdu with the right font. Bad news that 
> parsnigar is a commercial product. I read a recent writeup from you in 
> Spider's June Edition in which you've mentioned an effort by BD expats 
> in California to unleash a freely downloadable Bangla Word Processory. 
> I've been advocating something similar since June 2001 
> (http://pakistan.blogspot.com/2001_06_24_pakistan_archive.html#4298878) 
> but haven't been very lucky.
> 
> Frederick Noronha (FN) wrote:
> 
> >This is from the LinuxIran mailing list. Just thought of forwarding it to 
> >PLUC. Is there some similarity between the languages? FN
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