| ORIGINAL README: |
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| Valid Ligatures of Urdu. |
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| In 1980 Mr. Ahmad Mirza Jamil has invented a ligature based Nastaleeq writing |
| system. He has written about 18,000 valid ligatures of Urdu and developed a |
| Noori Nastaliq font. Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing (CRULP) is |
| releasing a soft copy of these ligatures in Unicode format. CRULP has |
| extensively used these ligatures for testing the fonts developed at the center |
| and realised that it will be a valuable resource for other font developers. |
| These ligatures are grouped in 2 to 8 characters and are sorted in the end |
| character order. |
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| These ligatures have been copied from a "Noori Nastaliq computerised Urdu |
| calligraphy (list of ligatures)" calligraphically designed and compiled by |
| Ahmad Mirza Jamil, Elite Publishers Limited, Karachi. |