Saadat Mateen

@zeerakahmed @matnsaz Aha! Would love to try it.

.@matnsaz, the easiest keyboard for Urdu, is coming to Android. Drop a comment if you'd like to help us test before launch!

The background is Moroccan Flower Pattern by Tomislava Babić. (toptal.com/designers/subt…)

English text is set in EB Garamond, by Georg Duffner and Octavio Pardo; its swash capitals are lovely. (googlefonts.github.io/ebgaramond-spe…)

#Eid mubarak, everyone! 🌙 (Credits in next posts…)

@zeerakahmed Thanks for catching that. 🙏🏽 Fixed.

@saadatm Minor typo: “indentical”

New blog post, in which I geek out over Urdu digits, Unicode, and CSS counter styles: saadatmand.pk/blog/of-urdu-d… #urdu #unicode #css

@zeerakahmed Thank you, Zeerak!

@saadatm This was excellent

(But… that transliteration is hilariously bad. I mean, sure, any Urdu transliteration of “jalapeno” will be comical, but the rest could have been actual Urdu, no? (e.g. “کَٹی ہوئی ہیلاپِنیو مِرچ”))

This is probably the first time I’ve seen Noto Nastaliq Urdu being used for packaging.

@Xill_e_Ilahi آداب عرض!

Guess the poets:

کچھ عرصے سے بلاگنگ بحال کرنے کی کوشش کر رہا ہوں… دھکا سٹارٹ کے طور پر ایک پرانی ٹوئٹر لڑی کو بلاگ پر شائع کیا ہے: سلائی مشین کا پرانا کِتابچہ — saadatmand.pk/ur/%D8%A8%D9%8…

Been trying for a while to get back to blogging, so in order to warm up, here’s an old Twitter thread as a blog post: The nostalgic sewing machine manual — saadatmand.pk/blog/the-nosta…

My latest article, just published in Book History: “Simplifying Urdu: Nasta‘liq Types for Mechanical Composition and the Forces of Colonization, Monopolization, and Ownership” muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/article/… #UrduTypography #Nastaliq #PrintCulture #BookHistory

@roozbehp Thank you so much! 🙏🏽

@saadatm The rest of the work is off the record, and has probably happened over email communication. But the result of that has definitely been included in the then Section 8.2 (now 9.2), since the Action Item has been closed. This is very probably the result:

@roozbehp I'm probably missing something obvious, but is there a way to search for the responses/replies to a UTC document? For example, take L2/10-168 (unicode.org/L2/L2010/10168…) : I can't find what the resolution to its suggestions was. Any pointers, please? 🙂

آج ایک ٹرک پر لِکّھا یہ شعر پڑھا: ؎ اے زندگی آ بیٹھ کہیں چائے پیتے ہیں تُو بھی تھک گئی ہو گی مجھے بھگاتے بھگاتے بحر اور وزن وغیرہ سے ماورا ہی سہی، لیکن داد تو بنتی ہے۔ 👏🏽

Examining the CSS further, Noto Nastaliq Urdu is also being used for Shahmukhi Punjabi. And a lot of other language-specific fonts (mostly from Noto fonts) are in there, too, which is lovely!

(2) That CSS selector with the repeated `:lang(ur)` pseudo-classes (marked “a” in the screenshot) to override the line-height from the abomination below (marked “b”). Somebody *really* wanted to avoid using `!important`. 🤭

Not sure when this started happening, but Google Translate now uses Noto Nastaliq Urdu for the Urdu language. 👍🏽