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جمعرات 17 فروری 2005Thursday, February 17, 2005
ٹریک بیک اور یونیکوڈ
موویبل ٹائپ (Movable Type) میں ٹریک بیک (Trackbacks) ایک عجب مسئلہ ہیں۔ کیونکہ ٹریک بیک یہ نہیں بتاتا کہ وہ کس زبان یا encoding میں ہے اس لئے اگر آپ مجھے پنگ کرتے ہیں اور آپ ISO-8859-1 استعمال کر رہے ہیں جبکہ میرا بلاگ UTF-8 میں ہے تو آپ کا پنگ صحیح نہیں لگے گا اور میرے صفحے کو invalid کر دے گا۔
اس کے علاوہ موویبل ٹائپ یہ گڑبڑ کرتا ہے کہ ٹریک بیک کے خلاصے کو ۲۵۲ حرفوں پر محدود کرتا ہے۔ مگر ان کا یہ کرنے کا طریقہ غلط ہے۔ حرف کی بجائے وہ بائٹ (byte) استعمال کرتے ہیں۔ یونیکوڈ میں ایک حرف کئی بائٹس پر مشتمل ہو سکتا ہے۔
جیک ڈسٹلر (Jacques Distler) اس کا حل سوچ رہے ہیں۔ اس پوسٹ سے میں ان کا حل آزمانا چاہتا ہوں۔
Posted by Zack at February 17, 2005 12:01 AM in Internet , Urdu
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Posted by: Ajmal (315 comments) at February 18, 2005 12:57 AM
Dad: I think you are not using the correct fonts. Some fonts have a few Urdu characters but are missing others. This is usually the case for Urdu characters that are not present in Arabic.
You can download a good package of Urdu fonts here. Then select Nafees Nastaleeq, Nafees Web Naskh or Asiatype etc. as the font when typing in Urdu.
Posted by: Zack (1792 comments) at February 18, 2005 11:19 AM
Good. Insha Allah, I will go to Islamabad tomorrow after noon and download the proposed fonts as soon as weather becomes bearable because our study room is very cold in winter. These days Islamabad is under cold wave not witnessed during last 20 years.
Posted by: Ajmal (315 comments) at February 19, 2005 12:42 AM
Stay assured I would tunnel some tough test to your trackback receiver port :P
Posted by: Asif (37 comments) at February 22, 2005 3:38 PM
Asif: Sure, test it, it would be good to know any weaknesses of the current system.
Posted by: Zack (1792 comments) at February 22, 2005 11:46 PM | PGP Sig
hi, i’ve been working with jazi for a short time, i am also working on developing better stylesheets for urdu blogs, i m working on it and found out that nafees web naskh is good but its english script is informal so we have to use a different class for english paras, Urdu Naskh Asiatype asia type is good.
also check this, its in urdu naskh asia type, this font also comes in the font package which www.bbcurdu.com supplies. its for testing purposes only so don’t bother on the content included. bbyes
http://urdutech.blogspot.com
http://harrisbinkhurram.blogspot.com
Posted by: حارث بن خرم (2 comments) at March 10, 2005 2:05 PM
Harris: Thanks for your comment. I hope you are familiar with the Urdu Wiki we have set up to collect information for Urdu blogging and other resources. Your help there will definitely be appreciated.
Posted by: Zack (1792 comments) at March 13, 2005 5:58 PM | PGP Sig
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I have been writing in Urdu (not on blog). One thing that annoys me is that some individual letters or couples of letters are written as a box rather than its own shape. These letters / couples may be different in different font systems. I fail to understand why the designers have overlooked it or are unable to put it right.