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۔

By Zack

Dad, gadget guy, bookworm, political animal, global nomad, cyclist, hiker, tennis player, photographer

7 comments

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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.

  6. 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 http://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

  7. 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.

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