Urdu Nastaleeq Now in iOS
From the Blog smartchoice In 2010 a personal project was started by Mudassir Azeemi to introduce Urdu typing in iPhone. A phonetic keyboard was developed and tested, the app (Urdu Writer) submitted to Apple Store and was used by Urdu users around the globe. On October 5, 2014 an open letter was written and posted for Tim Cook, then sent via post on October 8th. Mudassir received call from Tim Cook himself on October 13th, just 8 days after publishing of the open letter and the efforts for introduction of calligraphic Urdu typing were appreciated. Now, the Nastaleeq typeface has been included to iOS 9.0 Beta. *Background* Apple had introduced Urdu Keyboard in iOS 8 and used Urdu unicode that was derived from Arabic. This provided a visual display of Urdu language that was very basic. The typeface was cpakistanblogs.blogspot.comRead Full Post
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