Google Urdu Translation

Another excellent effort by the gurus at Google. Google is now offering translation to and from Urdu.

Although in Alpha, the tool will definitely help researchers, students and lovers of Urdu language to work in a better way by incorporating Urdu to computers.
Here is the link to the translation site, where you can select Urdu in the drop downs.
Urdu Translation at Google.

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Urdu Nastaleeq Font for mobiles

CRULP announces successful deployment of open source Pango rendering engine onto Symbian mobile development platform. This engine allows rendering of complex Asian writing systems through Open Type fonts. Please visit http://www.crulp.org/research/Project-Details/ALSMP.htm for some details. The current work has been on Arabic script.
The picture shows Nafees Nastalique Open Type Font rendered on Nokia E51.

The project aims to continue to investigate deploying Pango on Adroid mobile platform by Google and develop training material to enable the same for other scripts.
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MS Office 2007 Urdu interface Pack

Well, Microsoft has released Urdu Interface Pack for Office 2007. Here's the direct download link for the pack.

Download Urdu Interface Pack for MS Office 2007

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