There are indeed stylistic differences between different fonts... this is a
fact that is true in any language. Generally speaking one should pick the
fonts that best represent the language in question.
michka
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----- Original Message -----
From: "MULTI-LINGUIST" <mlinguist@mantraonline.com>
To: "Michael (michka) Kaplan" <michka@trigeminal.com>
Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2000 8:32 AM
Subject: Re: URDU fonts
> Mr.Michka has prempted my doubt, in the sense that there are stylistic
> differences between the Urdu and Arabic/Farsi fonts. Can you throw some
> light on this fact.
> Best regards
> Paresh
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Michael (michka) Kaplan <michka@trigeminal.com>
> To: Unicode List <unicode@unicode.org>
> Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 11:16 AM
> Subject: Re: URDU fonts
>
>
> > This is interesting, actually. Of the three fonts you name, is there a
> > particular preference in terms of appearance, from an Urdu perspective?
I
> > know for example that some consider Tahoma to be wonderful for Arabic
but
> > downright homely for Farsi (when compared to Microsoft Sans Serif).
> >
> > Just trying to improve my knowledge of best font choices! :-)
> >
> > MichKa
> >
> > Michael Kaplan
> > Trigeminal Software, Inc.
> > http://www.trigeminal.com/
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Houman Pournasseh" <houmanp@exchange.microsoft.com>
> > To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
> > Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 10:37 AM
> > Subject: RE: URDU fonts
> >
> >
> > > To add to what have been said by Michael, I should say, that some of
the
> > > big fonts (multi-script) shipped with Windows 2000 had a GSub table
> > > problem with regards to few Urdu specific characters. Part of these
> > > issues have been addressed for SP1 and the remaining will be resolved
in
> > > Whistler. Tahoma, Microsoft Sans Serif and Arial are the best fonts
for
> > > Urdu.
> > > Houman
> > > Microsoft Corporation
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Michael (michka) Kaplan [mailto:michka@trigeminal.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 10:04 AM
> > > To: Unicode List
> > > Subject: Re: URDU fonts
> > >
> > >
> > > Well, one difficulty would be in trying to understand what you mean by
> > > "TTF
> > > URDU" fonts. Are these Unicode fonts?
> > >
> > > It is true that the Arabic versions of Windows 95/98/Me do not fully
> > > support
> > > Urdu as they are supporting the Arabic *language* not the Arabic
> > > *script* (a
> > > name overload that I wish both Unicode and Microsoft would try to
avoid
> > > whenever possible since it can cause confusion!). However, Windows
2000
> > > and
> > > the Arabic enabled version of NT4 both will have much more luck with
> > > Unicode
> > > fonts that support the necessary characters for Urdu.
> > >
> > > Windows 2000 has an Urdu keyboard, and I believe you will find that
the
> > > capabilities in Windows 2000 will suit all of your immediate needs
here.
> > >
> > > For editing, both Word 2000 and FrontPage 2000 can do well with Urdu
> > > text
> > > (if you use the former then you have to be willing to live with all
the
> > > extra tags Word loves to add, if you use the latter then I would
> > > recommend
> > > HTML view over Normal view after long experience with complex scripts
in
> > > FP2000.
> > >
> > > Now, none of this will help you convert an English website to Urdu....
> > > they
> > > will give you tools so that you could convert the site yourself,
though.
> > >
> > > MichKa
> > >
> > > Michael Kaplan
> > > Trigeminal Software, Inc.
> > > http://www.trigeminal.com/
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > ----- Original Message -----
> > > From: "MULTI-LINGUIST" <mlinguist@mantraonline.com>
> > > To: "Unicode List" <unicode@unicode.org>
> > > Sent: Friday, December 01, 2000 8:45 AM
> > > Subject: URDU fonts
> > >
> > >
> > > Is it possible to type Urdu in Arabic Windows for a website?? I have
> > > come to
> > > know that Arabic Windows does not support any TTF Urdu fonts. Is this
> > > true?
> > > If it is true, then is it possible to transfer the fonts of Universal
> > > Word
> > > (Urdu typing software) to Arabic Windows and then type Urdu?
> > > Can we paste the Urdu text into the HTML files? If someone could also
> > > tell
> > > whether these fonts would support the Unicode system.
> > > I am actually confused.
> > > If all the above is not understandable, can someone simply tell which
> > > software to use for converting an English Website into URDU?? And what
> > > procedure to follow.
> > > Best regards
> > > Paresh Agarwal
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>
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