Text entry with non-European scripts

[Andy Mabbett]

Although I only speak English, I need to learn techniques for publishing
text using non-European scripts (initially Urdu & Punjabi). I think I'm
getting there, but I'm having problems finding information about text
entry, into CMSs or text-based HTML editors, on Windows systems.

Can anyone advise, or suggest reference material, please?

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[Helmut Wollmersdorfer]

Re: Text entry with non-European scripts

Andy Mabbett wrote:

Although I only speak English, I need to learn techniques for publishing
text using non-European scripts (initially Urdu & Punjabi).

You nearly know nothing about the languages Urdu & Punjabi, and you want
to _type_ texts in the scripts Urdu, Gurmukhi and Shahmukhi?

I think I'm
getting there, but I'm having problems finding information about text
entry, into CMSs or text-based HTML editors, on Windows systems.

As a minimum you will need a text editor with UNICODE BIDI support (Urdu
and Shahmukhi are right-to-left). Try UltraEdit or Crimson, but I never
used them with BIDI.

Helmut Wollmersdorfer

[Pierre Goiffon]

Re: Text entry with non-European scripts

Andy Mabbett wrote:

Although I only speak English, I need to learn techniques for publishing
text using non-European scripts (initially Urdu & Punjabi). I think I'm
getting there, but I'm having problems finding information about text
entry, into CMSs or text-based HTML editors, on Windows systems.
>
Can anyone advise, or suggest reference material, please?

You'll have to read lots of documentation to do things well
You can start reading those webpages :

http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars/index.html

http://ppewww.physics.gla.ac.uk/~flavell/charset/

http://czyborra.com/

http://www.w3.org/International/

http://www.unicode.org/faq/