From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Tue Mar 23 2004 - 12:26:20 EST
From: "Peter Constable" <petercon@microsoft.com>
> Scripts used by Urdu, Panjabi and Bengali are all supported in Unicode.
> Urdu can be written using naskh-style Arabic (supported on WinXP,
> Win2K...), but users strongly prefer nastaliq. The latter is supported
> by the Uniscribe shaping engine; MS has not yet shipped any nastaliq
> fonts, but some are available from other vendors.
An interesting site about the Persian Nastaliq style for the modified Arabic
script:
http://www.kelk.org/Lessons/lessons.shtml
Dedicated to calligraphic and artistic designs, which shows how it inherited
from the historic two artistic styles of Quran: Naskh and Taliq; the name itself
should be written "Naskhtaliq", for the Persian family of Arabic letter designs.
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