[Indic-computing-users] Some Urdu/Pakistani localisation attempts....

[Frederick N. <fr...@by...>]

Would appreciate if any one who understands this field could comment
on how serious and successful these projects are. --FN

Pashtu Localization Project
This project is designed to initiate and facilitate the
localization of Open Source Software into Pashtu, the
majority language of Afghanistan and the border areas of
Pakistan.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/localizepashtu/

Urdu Localization
Urdu internationalization utilities. Three utilities: Inpage
converter, typing tutor and collating/search will be made
available initially.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/urdu/

Urdu Font Project
Urdu Font Project is a step towards Opensource development of
True Type Unicode Standard based Urdu Fonts specially
"Nastaleeq", "Nastaleeq" Like and "Naskh" fonts.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/urdufontproject/

Urdu Indic Initiative
This is the F/LOSS-based localization (l10n) Initiative for
Urdu as spoken in the Indian sub-continent. We are working
towards a localized GNOME/KDE, Mozilla Firefox and
OpenOffice.org for ur_IN based on the Unicode Standard and
associated technologies.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/urduindic/

Urdu Bulletin Board
A Mozilla-Firefox Plugin which enables Urdu Typing/Rendering
for HTML Pages.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/urdu-bb/

RabtPad
RabtPad is a configurable unicode and Java based text editor
for arabic based scripts including Urdu and Farsi with
virtual keyboard for not latin scripts on latin based
systems, export to pdf, rtf, html and plain text (later xml).
http://sourceforge.net/projects/rabtpad/

PyUrduEdit
PyUrduEdit is a simple text editor for the Urdu
language.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pyurduedit/

Urdu phpBB
An Urdu adaptation of the phpBB forum software complete with
langauge translation and an online Urdu editor.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/urduphpbb/

Urdu OCR SDK
It is under progress and will be capable of of recognition of
Urdu isolated character recognition. It is an SDK for offline
Urdu character recognition.
http://sourceforge.net/projects/urduocrsdk/
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