thank you so very much for a call that I receive on your behalf regarding #NastaleeqItApple issue! You are awesome!- Mudassir Azeemi 🏴‍☠️ October 13, 2014Īzeemi, a Pakistani who works out of San Francisco, says the roots of his campaign germinated well before his email to Cook on October 5, and subsequent snail-mail on October 8. Instead, the representative assured him that Apple will consider implementing the typeface.

Azeemi was initially fretting whether there are lawyers on the other end with a cease and desist notice over his campaign. The effort paid part dividend when on October 13, Azeemi got a phone call from Cook’s representatives. In writing a letter, emailing and tweeting to the CEO of Apple CEO, Tim Cook, Azeemi urged, explained, even pleaded about how easy it would be to implement the Nastaleeq typeface for the Urdu keyboard in iOS 8. This prompted the creator of Urdu Writer, Mudassir Azeemi, to start a social media campaign. The downside for some in this new feature, though, is that it follows the Naskh typeface derived from Arabic Unicode, rather than Nastaleeq. This functionality was previously available only through language-specific apps such as Urdu Writer.

This enables users of Apple’s popular iPhone, iTouch and iPad devices to type in Urdu while using texts, email, social media and other interaction.

Hidden among those upgrades was the implementation of the Urdu keyboard across the system. The Cupertino-based company had launched iOS 8 on September 17 in what was termed their biggest software update to date, boasting a whole host of features for those using modern Apple mobile devices. But persistence of a few Urdu speakers has now forced the IT giant to consider adopting the native typeface of Urdu language, Nastaleeq, along with the current Naskh font. Apple implemented the Urdu language keyboard across mobile devices in its iOS 8 update in mid-September.

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