FIREFOX KEYBOARD BOOKMARKLET

[jess body <jessbody at gmail dot com>]

This FireFox bookmarklet allows you to write in Urdu on the web without
the need for systems' Urdu keyboard. Open a webpage with a input-box
where you can write. Write pretending that you are writing with Urdu
phonetic keyboard. Click on the URDU button on the FireFox toolbar and
the text in the box will magically convert to Urdu. This "bookmarklet
keyboard" works in the FireFox web browser on all operating systems.

Get the bookmarklets from http://geocities.com/urdutext/

This FireFox Urdu keyboard, for example, works on the following sites:
GOOGLE
GOOGLE-GROUPS
JANG
GMAIL (BASIC HTML MODE)

On GOOGLE's search box, for example, type:
aslam elikm

Now click on the URDU button (the bookmarklet) on the FireFox bookmarks toolbar. The text will convert to Urdu:
اسلام علیکم

When writing assume the CRULP's phonetic keyboard layout.

For
sites, where the bookmarklet won't work, there is a second PAD
bookmarklet, which opens a TEXTPAD window, in which you can write, and
then convert to Urdu with the first bookmarklet. The Urdu text can then
be CUT-n-PASTE anywhere.

The bookmarklets are written in
_javascript_, so the script can be inspected (and modified). The
bookmarklet can be modified to support other non-Latin languages like Arabic and Farsi by
replacing the ASCII-to-Unicode table.