DUBAI, May 31: Work aimed at an easier and wider use of the Nastaaliq script was started about four months ago by the world's leading software house Microsoft and it is likely to end within a year, the man leading the group of programmers involved in the project told Dawn. Anas Abbar, chief of the Microsoft's team for the difficult scripts: Hindi, Urdu and Gujrati said this after the official launch of Microsoft's new version of package called Office XP. Bahram Mohazzebi, the Microsoft's general manager for Gulf and Eastern Mediterranean, said it was for the first time in the history of his company that the Arabic version of a computer package was launched simultaneously with the English one. "Eleven years ago the time-lag between the Arabic version of a computer program and its English version was 18 months. But today there's a time-lag of zero," he said. Anas Abbar, the man behind the Arabic version of Office XP, told the audience that his program supported eight languages, including Urdu, Hindi and Gujrati. He gave a demonstration on the capabilities of his program. (Dawn News Service) |
