In 1998 National Language Authority, under Dr. These issues were addressed through the standardization of keyboard. However, with the arrival of the digital age, the layout became inadequate for computerized processing that required software backup to select the shape of the character appropriate to the context, and the ability to store multiple language character sets.
The keyboard had 46 keys to type 71 Urdu consonants, vowels, diacritics, and punctuation marks, and 21 key symbols for arithmetic calculations and digits. In 1980, the National Language Authority of Pakistan developed a new keyboard layout for typewriters based on Naskh script. This underscored an urgent need for a standard form of keyboard adaptable for diverse users. However, differences remained in the order of the keys and the number of characters. When Urdu was declared as the national language of the independent Pakistan in 1947, a variety of keyboard designs were quickly brought into the market by various individuals and organizations. These developments helped the keyboard layout to evolve from the typewriters to be compatible with computers, to increase the productivity and textual efficiency of the language, especially through modern electronic media.
Modern improvements in Urdu keyboard were pioneered by the National Language Authority ( Muqtadra-e-Qaumi Zaban) in Pakistan, which standardized the linguistic aspects such as orthography and lexicography. With time, the variety of layouts introduced in the 1950s for mechanized compositions have reduced to very few that are compatible with the new digital age. Since the first Urdu typewriter was made available in 1911, the layout has gone through various phases of evolution.
Position of only one character is changed.Ĭlick the setup.exe to install a keyboard layout.The Urdu keyboard is any keyboard layout for Urdu computer and typewriter keyboards. Characters like dot(.) and are added in empty spaces of shift version. Only shift version of layout 1.1 is modified. Some new characters have been added to support email addresses in Urdu. The new version is also compatible with Microsoft Windows 10. The reviewed layout version 1.2 is compatible with Unicode 5.1. This layout is reviewed again considering the need of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) and Email Address Internationalization (EAI).
The layout was reviewed to make it compatible with Unicode 5.1. CRULP Urdu Phonetic Keyboard Layout v1.1 for WindowsĬLE Urdu Phonetic Keyboard Layout v1.2 forĬenter for Research in Urdu Language Processing (CRULP) released a “Phonetic” keyboard layout version 1.0 for Microsoft platform in April 2004 extended from InPage to incorporate Unicode character set for Urdu.
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