Re: Urdu language question

[Youssef Chahibi <chahibi gmail com>]

On Thursday 14 September 2006 07:44, Fernando Apesteguía wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I have a problem with the urdu translation of my project. We
> translated it into other languages like Croatian, Italian, Russian and
> more without problems.
>
> Then, the urdu translator sent me the .po file. It appeared to be fine
> (I'm spanish, and I have no idea about Urdu), but when I sent a
> screenshot to my translator, he replied me:
>
> ------------------
> Well, I think there is a problem in the translation application.  The
> Urdu characters are not appearing in their original shapes.  For
> example:
>
> Copyright (c) Fernando Apesteguia
>
> Should be appear like this, here characters are combine with each
> other except for space.
>
> جملہ بحق محفوظ(c) فرنینڈو اپیسٹیگوا
>
> and in the shot, this is appear as separate words.

You must use an Urdu font. You can get one from 
http://www.crulp.org/nafeesNastaleeq.html or 
http://sourceforge.net/projects/paktype .