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

[Venky H. <ve...@vs...>]

Ravikant of Sarai recently mentioned that they are working on Urdu.

Venky


----- Original Message -----
From: Frederick Noronha (FN) <fr...@by...>
To: Tee Emm <tm...@su...>
Cc: <ta...@sa...>; <Ind...@li...>
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 3:04 AM
Subject: [Indic-computing-users] Farsi, Urdu, Bangla... and neighbourhood
news


> 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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