I was waiting for the final release of WordPress 1.5 to work on my Urdu theme. Here is my Urdu blog, I still need to modify a few files and add some javascript buttons in my comments form. Please have a look and let me know what you think of … Continue reading
Does anyone know of the existence of an Urdu spell-checker? I searched and found quite a few English-Urdu dictionaries online, most of which are in roman. There are a few in unicode like urduword but are amatuer to be considered as a standard Urdu lughat. If any of Urdu-English dictionaries … Continue reading
Actually I wanted to talk about several topics in this post but as it grew quite large, I decided to split it into two posts. I will post the second part later. So stay tuned. The Urdu community needs a Unicode Urdu forum. There are already a few Urdu forums … Continue reading
I have modified a pre-made template from blogger to be used for Urdu only blogs. There are some difficulties here, like I don’t know how to change the date header and make it display day and date in Urdu. Also I am a little worried about font size, line height, … Continue reading
Friends! Couple of days past I received an email from this guy Qadeer Ahmed Rana that he liked our efforts and that he would get back to us soon. Now I received an email where he says: I have completed the main file of phpBB and half of faq file, … Continue reading
درج ذیل بحث “اردو ویب سائٹس” یا “اردو ویب سائٹ” میں سے کسی ایک کے اردو قواعد کے مطابق ہونے سے متعلق ہے۔ یہ ذہن میں رہے کہ اوپر دیے گئے مرکبات کا ویب سائٹس کے مجموعہ کی طرف اشارہ کرنا مقصود ہے۔ بحث کے آغاز سے آگاہی کیلئے اس … Continue reading
The weekend is approaching and that could mean a slight surge of activities in UrduWiki. I have been thinking about the further strategy of improving and promoting UrduWiki. I strongly feel that people with development and programming skills should also join their efforts together for creating better tool support for … Continue reading
I think that we should do something like a simple guide to write plain HTML Urdu pages. It would help some beginners to understand what they need to do with their blogs to make them Urdu enabled. Like something to explain character encoding and doctype,dir and lang attributes. There are … Continue reading
More fonts are available. Please use following: * @::ur::@ for nafees web naskh * @::ur-nast::@ for nafees nastaleeq * @::ur-at::@ for bbc asiatype Examples are on sandbox. And Nabeel I noted your complaint. It took me sometime to reproduce the bug. In IE, yes, the external links give some strange … Continue reading
In plain html, we often have (“) double quotes, and (‘) single quotes. A special php function called htmlspecialchars is used to convert them to their char codes. For some unexplained reasons, even if you supply “utf-8″ as an argument for the char-set to this function, it still converts all … Continue reading