URDU VIRTUAL KEYBOARD - Githubissues

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

hI
 Well I just witnessed the Google virtual keyboard and I liked it very
much and felt interested in using it in my Web Pages. So I started
looking for my language but I was really surprised and also felt sorry
for not finding my language. By the way let me tell you that my
language is URDU. I thought it should be there because there is
support for ARABIC language and URDU is not much different from the
Arabic one..
Having a look at it you will notice that there is a very slight
difference in URDU and ARABIC keyboard. There are only few characters
that are extra in URDU like the word on P ( ) is not present in
Arabic.
So I would request you to kindly work on Urdu virtual keyboard too and
make it available on Google code as soon as possible so that a large
Urdu speaking and writing community of different countries can be
benefited.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by adilmuka...@gmail.com on 22 Feb 2010 at 4:40

Attachments:

[urdu virtual keyboard.doc](https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-attachments/google-ajax-apis/issue-396/comment-0/urdu virtual keyboard.doc)

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Original comment by jscud.w...@gmail.com on 26 Feb 2010 at 6:33

Added labels: APIType-Language

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Hi Adil,

Where does this layout comes from? Is this the most common layout used by Urdu 
population? What are the competing layouts to this?

Thanks,
Cibu

Original comment by cib...@gmail.com on 17 Mar 2010 at 9:06

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

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GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

hi Cibu 
thanks for your reply.
well let me tell you that the earlier keyboard layout that i had attached is the
phonetic keyboard which works with the sound of the words. e.g 'a' button of the
keyboard contain an Urdu word which is similar to the sound of 'a' and same is 
the
case for other characters. This was not mostly used in the past but currently 
is is
gaining pace and is considered a better and easy to use layout.
below is the link of the the basic Urdu keyboard layout which is used by the 
famous
Urdu editor known as 'Inpage'. 
http://www.crulp.org/Downloads/Inpage%20Monotype%20(R)%20Keyboard%20Layout.pdf
Another link that might be useful regarding virtual keyboard of Urdu language is
listed below.
http://www.gate2home.com/?language=ur
also have a visit to www.crulp.org which is center for research in Urdu 
language of
Pakistan.

regards
Adil

Original comment by adilmuka...@gmail.com on 18 Mar 2010 at 6:13

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Dear adil here you can enalbe urdu and can type any thing in urdu even in MS 
word. 
try it

Original comment by comage4...@gmail.com on 18 Mar 2010 at 9:28

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

I see lot of varieties of Urdu layout

1. NLA (wikipedia says this is the standard)
2. Phonetic: your doc. Is there any references for that?
3. Inpage
4. Another phonetic: http://neosense.com/urdu-keyboard/
and lot more.

I am wondering how would I establish which one community is most familiar with.

Original comment by cib...@gmail.com on 19 Mar 2010 at 12:01

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Its not a big difference. Being a user I will say that there should be a 
provision of
Urdu keyboard. Urdu is the language of more than 174 million population and well
recognized in south asia as well as UK, USA, and EU. I think CRULP's guidelines 
are
more preferred being a research project working from some last years. However 
Mr.
Adil can forward some concrete suggestions in this regard.

Rafiq

Original comment by rafiqlib...@gmail.com on 19 Mar 2010 at 12:13

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

well Mr cibucj
there are two standard keyboard layouts known as
phonetic and window keyboard 
the reference for window keyboard is 
http://www.crulp.org/Downloads/Microsoft%20Windows%20Urdu%20Keyboard.pdf
among your options 
1. NLA (wikipedia says this is the standard)
2. Phonetic: your doc.
4. Another phonetic: http://neosense.com/urdu-keyboard/
are known as phonetic and there is no major difference among them.
The one that is standard is the one that you saw at 
1. NLA (wikipedia says this is the standard)
i'd like to tell you that there is no much difference with the one i have 
attached
with my first message.
Now a days the phonetic keyboard is used mostly and there are even phonetics 
layouts
available for windows too.
so if you are going to work on i'd suggest you to work on the phonetic one as 
it is
easy to grab and then comparatively fast to use as compared to the window one.
regards
adil

Original comment by adilmuka...@gmail.com on 19 Mar 2010 at 5:31

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Dear Mr. Cibucj

CRULP has been working on keyboard designs for URDU and other local languages of
Pakistan. These layouts are drafted for the ease of users. CRULP Urdu Phonetic
Keyboard Layout v1.1 for Windows
(http://www.crulp.org/software/localization/keyboards/CRULPphonetickbv1.1.html) 
is
very famous and considered as a standard now for typing Urdu on Microsoft 
platform.
This version is widely accepted by local language community and have been 
finalized
after valuable feedback from users. 
You can also visit http://www.crulp.org/software/localization.htm for other 
details
and work carried out for Urdu. 

Regards 
Ahmed

Original comment by fastm...@gmail.com on 26 Mar 2010 at 5:46

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

any update regarding this suggestion ?

Original comment by adilmuka...@gmail.com on 2 Apr 2010 at 8:13

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Could you make this information available in the wikipedia article as well: 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu_keyboard

Original comment by cib...@gmail.com on 2 Apr 2010 at 8:29

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

i didnt got your point correctly . did you mean the info about the urdu virtual
keyboard api or about all the discussion that we are having upto now.if it is
regarding the first one then i will certainly but if you are talking about the 
later
one i'd say that is there any need.

Original comment by adilmuka...@gmail.com on 2 Apr 2010 at 9:11

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Dear adilmukarram,

This is what I was thinking: There are lot of keyboard layouts for Urdu. I 
would like to get a sense of the popular ones out there. 
However, this discussion forum is may not be reaching many people. At the same 
time, more eyeballs would be looking at an wikipedia 
article. So I would like you to add the above information in 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu_keyboard for validation from wider 
audience.

Currently, I feel, UZT 1.01 from NLA is the standard and should work as listed 
in used in MS windows: http://ur.wikipedia.org/wiki/
معاونت:پڑھنا_لکھنا_دشوار؟_(ونڈوز_ایکس_پی) 
Also, the phonetic alternate could be CRULP.

At the same time, from the discussions here, I feel, there is definitely a 
recent push towards CRULP. May be we should go for both.

Original comment by cib...@gmail.com on 4 May 2010 at 3:17

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Dear Cibucj
i have composed some para which i think can be added to wikipedia . they are 

"With the UZT keyboard the other keyboard that is used common is the phonetic
keyboard. Phonetic keyboards works with the sound of the words. e.g. 'a' button 
of
the English keyboard contain an Urdu word which is similar to the sound of 'a' 
and
same is the case for other characters. This was not mostly used in the past but
currently it is gaining pace and is considered a better and easy to use layout.
CRULP (Center for research for Urdu language processing) has been working on 
phonetic
 keyboard designs for URDU and other local languages of Pakistan. CRULP Urdu Phonetic
Keyboard Layout v1.1 for Windows (
http://www.crulp.org/software/localization/keyboards/CRULPphonetickbv1.1.html) 
is
very famous and considered as a standard now for typing Urdu on Microsoft 
platform.
This version is widely accepted by local language community and has been 
finalized
after valuable feedback from users. "

after your review i will try to add it to wikipedia.

Regards
Adil

Original comment by adilmuka...@gmail.com on 13 May 2010 at 11:08

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Adil,
Please add that to wikipedia. People watching the urdu keyboard page will 
surely review 
that and amend it. However, I won't be able to review it since I lack 
experience with 
Urdu keyboard :(

Original comment by cib...@gmail.com on 13 May 2010 at 3:05

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Dear Cibucj
i have added it to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urdu_keyboard. you can check it.

Original comment by adilmuka...@gmail.com on 13 May 2010 at 7:10

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Dear All
hope you all will be fine. you will be pleased to know that urdu keyboard 
layout has
been added to google virual keyboard layouts. you can check it at 
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxlanguage/documentation/referenceKeyboard.html#La
youtCode.
thanks
regards
Adil

Original comment by adilmuka...@gmail.com on 4 Jun 2010 at 6:26

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

Original comment by adam.fel...@gtempaccount.com on 9 Jun 2010 at 11:42

Changed state: Fixed

GoogleCodeExporter commented 8 years ago

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سے آپکو اردو فونیٹک کی بورڈ مل جائے گا پھر 
آپ ونڈوز 7استعمال کریں یاونڈوزایکس پی دونوں 
پرفٹ چلے گا۔

Guys for Phonetic Keyboard use the website URL given below and download Urdu 
keyboard and special Urdu fonts.

http://crulp.org

Original comment by sunnyls2...@gmail.com on 14 Feb 2011 at 9:32

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