From: Peter Kirk (peterkirk@qaya.org)
Date: Wed Mar 24 2004 - 18:28:45 EST
On 24/03/2004 14:23, Philippe Verdy wrote:
>From: "Peter Constable" <petercon@microsoft.com>
>
>
>>>From: Peter Kirk [mailto:peterkirk@qaya.org]
>>>
>>>
>>>Does it include input methods for all of the letters used in Urdu?
>>>Antoine pointed out to me that the Arabic (101) keyboard which I
>>>mentioned does support all of these methods. Or are you calling
>>>Character Map an input method?
>>>
>>>
>>No, I wasn't counting CharMap. I don't know what all characters are used
>>in Urdu. The info at
>>http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/reference/win2k/setup/lcid.mspx
>>indicates that the Arabic (101) keyboard is the default on Win2K for
>>Urdu.
>>
>>
>
>In my Windows XP, I have four keyboard layouts proposed for the Urdu language:
>"Arabic (101)", "Arabic (102)", "Arabic (102) AZERTY" and "Urdu", plus the
>keyboards for the Brahmic/ISCII transliterations in India, and the Tavulesoft
>"Urdu" keyboard layout, all of which can be added simultaneously to the language
>bar are selected from there. Isn't that enough?
>
>...
>
>
That is one Urdu keyboard, not four, because none of the Arabic ones
support Urdu. "Urdu" should certainly be the default and the others
should not even be proposed.
But yes, the issue we were discussing was for Windows 2000 and is known
to be fixed in Windows XP.
-- Peter Kirk peter@qaya.org (personal) peterkirk@qaya.org (work) http://www.qaya.org/
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