Urdu

From Pakistan

[edit] On the 'Net

July's cover story in Spider magazine (the Dawn Group's Internet Magazine) is titled Sifting Scripts: Is Urdu ready for the information superhighway?.

Highlights of the whole edition, including the full articles on Urdu on the 'Net are available off the Spider web page at: http://www.spider.tm

Top Story provides a good assessement of the state of Urdu on the 'Net--and a critique of what has been going wrong so far. Another story critiques Microsoft's recent launch of an Urdu version of MS Word. Another stories covers how the blogosphere is evolving (http://www.spider.tm/jul2005/cstory2.html)