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Urdu and Movable Type

I am busy this week, so I might not get to the Movable Type guide for Urdu blogging for a few days. My plan is to provide two guides:

  • The quick one would get you a bilingual blog in which your posts can be in Urdu but other stuff, like dates etc., will be in English.
  • The detailed one which configures everything to be different for Urdu and English posts.

    For now, here are two posts I wrote about setting up my own blog for Urdu last year: Urdu Blogging and Web and More about Urdu Blogging. In addition to some configuration instructions, they have a list of resources. However, my instructions are quite confused and not orderly at all. I’ll try to fix that and write a better and concise set of instructions soon.

    This entry was posted on Sunday, January 30th, 2005 at 10:49 pm and is filed under English, Movable Type. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

11 Responses to “Urdu and Movable Type”

  1. emad Says:
    March 27th, 2005 at 11:49 pm

    Assalam u alaikum
    I have a site at
    http://www.sahilonline.org/urdu
    the problem of this urdu blog is i can type urdu in the textarea but the same data will automaticaly be converted to unknown characters in ms access database after submiting.
    hence i cant retrieve urdu text from database. how can i solve this ?
    any help is appreciated. i m using asp and ms access.
    thanks

  2. زکریا Says:
    April 1st, 2005 at 12:06 am

    emad: Which version of MS-Access are you using?

  3. emad Says:
    April 2nd, 2005 at 9:09 am

    Thanks for ur comments.. currently i m using ms access 2000 and i can switch to xp as well if need arises..

  4. زکریا Says:
    April 3rd, 2005 at 12:26 am

    emad: I think Access 2000 was the first version to have Unicode support. It might be a problem with the function(s) which get the text from the textarea and write it to the database.

  5. emad Says:
    April 7th, 2005 at 8:56 am

    Asp function is fine. i can store english data with same function..
    there is no problem is asp code..

  6. زکریا Says:
    April 7th, 2005 at 10:25 am

    emad: While the asp code might be handling ASCII fine, it could still have problems with Unicode.

  7. emad Says:
    April 9th, 2005 at 11:41 am

    do u have any working asp code ?
    or how can i convert urdu text to utf-8 b4 submit to db ?

    thanks

  8. زکریا Says:
    April 10th, 2005 at 12:14 am

    emad: I don’t have any asp code and am not really familiar with asp. Sorry, I can’t be of any help.

  9. عماد اللہ Says:
    April 14th, 2005 at 2:59 am

    سلام و علیکم
    امید کے آپ بخیر عافیت سے ہونگے۔
    اللہ حافظ

  10. عماد Says:
    April 14th, 2005 at 3:08 am

    I M REALLLY WONDERD NOW. HERE ITS SUPPORTS URDU FROM DATABASE.
    CAN U PLS TELL ME HOW CAN I FOLLOW UR STEPS ?
    I WOULD BE THANKFUL TO U IF U SEND ME ANY CODE OR PHP OR CGI.

  11. زکریا Says:
    April 15th, 2005 at 10:55 pm

    Emad: I am using Movable Type for this blog. We have collected together instructions on how to blog in Urdu using Blogger, Wordpress and Movable Type at our Urdu Wiki.

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