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Yesterday I came across two important news regrarding Urdu in OpenOffice which I would like to share here.

Nastaleeq Font in OpenOffice

According to a post in Yahoo’s Urdu Computing Group, Nafees Nastaleeq as well as Fajer Nastaleeq are properly rendering in a development snapshot of the beta release of OpenOffice 2.2. Further, Fajer Nastaleeq also displays correctly in FireFox with the Pango engine. Here are the Details.

Urdu Spell Checking in OpenOffice

Another important news regarding Urdu in OpenOffice is that it is now possible to perform spell checking of the Urdu text in OpenOffice. I am pleased to announce that this has been made possible through UrduWeb’s cooperation. The credit for this goes to Mohammed Shakir Aziz. We had compiled a list of Urdu words some time ago with the idea of creating an Urdu dictionary. Asif Iqbal accomplished this task with the cooperation of some friends on the Mehfil forum. Though there has not been much progress towards this Urdu dictionary, still this Urdu words list cna be put to good use in other applications. Shakir consulted with the relevant persons to get this words list incorporated into OpenOffice and after a few days this words list is now an officially recognized Urdu dicionary for OpenOffice. Read here for details.

Urdu version of this post

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