Nafees Riqa v1.

00 beta
Release Notes

November 07, 2007

CENTER FOR RESEARCH IN URDU LANGUAGE PROCESSING

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF COMPUTER AND EMERGING SCIENCES, LAHORE
PAKISTAN
 Table of Contents

1 Introduction................................................................................................................................4
2 Character Set Supported by Nafees Riqa v1.00.......................................................................5
3 License Agreement .................................................................................................................10
Revision History

Name Change Date Version Description of Changes

Atif Gulzar 07-11-2007 1.0.0.0 Initial document
1 Introduction
Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing at National University of Computer and
Emerging Sciences is pleased to announce the beta release of character-based Nafees Riqa
Open Type Font for writing Urdu in Riqa script based on Unicode standard. Guidance and
calligraphy of basic glyphs for the font has been provided by Syed Jameel-ur-Rehman. He is pupil
of Syed Nafees Shah and Hafiz Syed Anees-ul-Hassan.

Nafees Riqa allows Urdu computing on Microsoft 2000, NT, XP, Unix and Linux platforms. This
font enables desktop and internet publishing, and electronic communication in Urdu using existing
software (without any plug-in) supporting OTF specifications, e.g. MS Word, MS Excel, MS
Outlook (email), Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla, MS PowerPoint.
2 Character Set Supported by Nafees Riqa v1.00

Sr.
Character Unicode Description Type
No.

1 ‫؀‬ U+0600 ARABIC NUMBER SIGN Sign

2 ‫؁‬ U+0601 ARABIC SIGN SANAH Sign

‫؂‬
ARABIC FOOTNOTE
3 U+0602 Sign
MARKER

4 ‫؃‬ U+0603 ARABIC SIGN SAFHA Sign

5 A U+060C ARABIC COMMA Punctuation

A
ARABIC DATE
6 U+060D Punctuation
SEPARATOR

؎
ARABIC POETIC VERSE
7 U+060E Sign
SIGN

8 ؏ U+060F ARABIC SIGN MISRA Sign

ؐ ARABIC SIGN
9 ◌ U+0610 SALLALLAHOU ALAYHE Honorific

ؑ
WASSALLAM

◌
ARABIC SIGN ALAYHE
10 U+0611 Honorific
ASSALLAM
ؒ
◌
ARABIC SIGN
11 U+0612 Honorific
RAHMATULLAH ALAYHE
ؓ
◌
ARABIC SIGN RADI
12 U+0613 Honorific
ALLAHOU ANHU
ؔ
◌
ARABIC SIGN
13 U+0614 Honorific
TAKHALLUS

ؕ
ARABIC SMALL HIGH
14 U+0615 Other
TAH

15 A U+061B ARABIC SEMICOLON Punctuation

A
ARABIC QUESTION
16 U+061F Punctuation
MARK

17 ‫ء‬ U+0621 ARABIC LETTER HAMZA Basic Alphabet

 ‫آ‬
ARABIC LETTER ALEF
18 U+0622 Basic Alphabet
WITH MADDA ABOVE

‫أ‬
ARABIC LETTER ALEF
19 U+0623 Basic Alphabet
WITH HAMZA ABOVE

‫ؤ‬
ARABIC LETTER WAW
20 U+0624 Basic Alphabet
WITH HAMZA ABOVE

◌
ARABIC LETTER YEH
21 U+0626 Basic Alphabet
WITH HAMZA ABOVE

22 ‫ا‬ U+0627 ARABIC LETTER ALEF Basic Alphabet

23 ‫ب‬ U+0628 ARABIC LETTER BEH Basic Alphabet

24 ‫ت‬ U+062A ARABIC LETTER TEH Basic Alphabet

25 ‫ث‬ U+062B ARABIC LETTER THEH Basic Alphabet

26 ‫ج‬ U+062C ARABIC LETTER JEEM Basic Alphabet

27 ‫ح‬ U+062D ARABIC LETTER HAH Basic Alphabet

28 ‫خ‬ U+062E ARABIC LETTER KHAH Basic Alphabet

29 ‫د‬ U+062F ARABIC LETTER DAL Basic Alphabet

30 ‫ذ‬ U+0630 ARABIC LETTER THAL Basic Alphabet

31 ‫ر‬ U+0631 ARABIC LETTER REH Basic Alphabet

32 ‫ز‬ U+0632 ARABIC LETTER ZAIN Basic Alphabet

33 ‫س‬ U+0633 ARABIC LETTER SEEN Basic Alphabet

34 ‫ش‬ U+0634 ARABIC LETTER SHEEN Basic Alphabet

35 ‫ص‬ U+0635 ARABIC LETTER SAD Basic Alphabet

36 ‫ض‬ U+0636 ARABIC LETTER DAD Basic Alphabet

37 ‫ط‬ U+0637 ARABIC LETTER TAH Basic Alphabet

38 ‫ظ‬ U+0638 ARABIC LETTER ZAH Basic Alphabet

39 ‫ع‬ U+0639 ARABIC LETTER AIN Basic Alphabet

40 ‫غ‬ U+063A ARABIC LETTER GHAIN Basic Alphabet

41 ‫ف‬ U+0641 ARABIC LETTER FEH Basic Alphabet

42 ‫ق‬ U+0642 ARABIC LETTER QAF Basic Alphabet

43 ‫ل‬ U+0644 ARABIC LETTER LAM Basic Alphabet

44 ‫م‬ U+0645 ARABIC LETTER MEEM Basic Alphabet

45 ‫ن‬ U+0646 ARABIC LETTER NOON Basic Alphabet

46 ‫و‬ U+0648 ARABIC LETTER WAW Basic Alphabet

ً
47 ◌ U+064B ARABIC FATHATAN Diacritic

ٌ
48 ◌ U+064C ARABIC DAMMATAN Diacritic

49 ◌ٍ U+064D ARABIC KASRATAN Diacritic

َ
50 ◌ U+064E ARABIC FATHA Diacritic

ُ
51 ◌ U+064F ARABIC DAMMA Diacritic

52 ◌ِ U+0650 ARABIC KASRA Diacritic

ّ
53 ◌ U+0651 ARABIC SHADDA Diacritic

ْ
54 ◌ U+0652 ARABIC SUKUN Diacritic

ٓ
55 ◌ U+0653 ARABIC MADDAH ABOVE Diacritic

ٔ
56 ◌ U+0654 ARABIC HAMZA ABOVE Diacritic

ٖ
◌
ARABIC SUBSCRIPT
57 U+0656 Diacritic
ALEF
ٗ
◌
ARABIC INVERTED
58 U+0657 Diacritic
DAMMA
٘
◌
ARABIC MARK NOON
59 U+0658 Diacritic
GHUNNA
60 A U+066A ARABIC PERCENT SIGN Sign

A
ARABIC DECIMAL
61 U+066B Punctuation
SEPARATOR

A
ARABIC THOUSANDS
62 U+066C Punctuation
SEPARATOR

◌ٰ
ARABIC LETTER
63 U+0670 Diacritic
SUPERSCRIPT ALEF

64 ‫ٹ‬ U+0679 ARABIC LETTER TTEH Basic Alphabet

65 ‫پ‬ U+067E ARABIC LETTER PEH Basic Alphabet

66 ‫چ‬ U+0686 ARABIC LETTER TCHEH Basic Alphabet

67 ‫ڈ‬ U+0688 ARABIC LETTER DDAL Basic Alphabet

68 ‫ڑ‬ U+0691 ARABIC LETTER RREH Basic Alphabet

69 ‫ژ‬ U+0698 ARABIC LETTER JEH Basic Alphabet

70 ‫ک‬ U+06A9 ARABIC LETTER KEHEH Basic Alphabet

71 ‫گ‬ U+06AF ARABIC LETTER GAF Basic Alphabet

‫ں‬
ARABIC LETTER NOON
72 U+06BA Basic Alphabet
GHUNNA

‫ھ‬
ARABIC LETTER HEH
73 U+06BE Basic Alphabet
DOACHASHMEE

‫ہ‬
ARABIC LETTER HEH
74 U+06C1 Basic Alphabet
GOAL
ARABIC LETTER HEH
75 ‫ۂ‬ U+06C2 GOAL WITH HAMZA
ABOVE
Basic Alphabet

‫ۃ‬
ARABIC LETTER TEH
76 U+06C3 Basic Alphabet
MARBUTA GOAL

‫ی‬
ARABIC LETTER FARSI
77 U+06CC Basic Alphabet
YEH

‫ے‬
ARABIC LETTER YEH
78 U+06D2 Basic Alphabet
BARREE
ARABIC LETTER YEH
79 ‫ۓ‬ U+06D3 BARREE WITH HAMZA
ABOVE
Basic Alphabet

80 A U+06D4 ARABIC FULL STOP Punctuation

 U
EXTENDED ARABIC-
81 U+06F0 Digit
INDIC DIGIT ZERO

U
EXTENDED ARABIC-
82 U+06F1 Digit
INDIC DIGIT ONE

U
EXTENDED ARABIC-
83 U+06F2 Digit
INDIC DIGIT TWO

U
EXTENDED ARABIC-
84 U+06F3 Digit
INDIC DIGIT THREE

U
EXTENDED ARABIC-
85 U+06F4 Digit
INDIC DIGIT FOUR

U
EXTENDED ARABIC-
86 U+06F5 Digit
INDIC DIGIT FIVE

U
EXTENDED ARABIC-
87 U+06F6 Digit
INDIC DIGIT SIX

U
EXTENDED ARABIC-
88 U+06F7 Digit
INDIC DIGIT SEVEN

U
EXTENDED ARABIC-
89 U+06F8 Digit
INDIC DIGIT EIGHT

U
EXTENDED ARABIC-
90 U+06F9 Digit
INDIC DIGIT NINE

‫ﷲ‬
ARABIC LIGATURE
91 U+FDF2 Ligature
ALLAH ISOLATED FORM
ARABIC LIGATURE
92 ‫ﷺ‬ U+FDFA SALLALLAHOU ALAYHE
WASALLAM
Ligature

◌
ARABIC LIGATURE
93 U+FDFB Ligature
JALLAJALALOUHOU
ARABIC LIGATURE
94 ﷽ U+FDFD BISMILLAH AR-RAHMAN Ligature
AR-RAHEEM
ARABIC LIGATURE LAM
95 ‫ﻻ‬ U+FEFB WITH ALEF ISOLATED
FROM
Ligature
3 License Agreement

Copyright (c) 2004 by Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing (CRULP), National
University of Computer and Emerging Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan. All Rights Reserved.

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of the font
accompanying this license (“Font”) and associated documentation files (the “Font Software”), to
reproduce and distribute the Font Software, including without limitation the rights to use, copy,
merge, publish, distribute, and/or sell copies of the Font Software, and to permit persons to whom
the Font Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

1. The above copyright and trademark notices and this permission notice shall be included in all
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2. The Font Software may be modified, altered, or added to, and in particular the designs of
glyphs or characters in the Fonts may be modified and additional glyphs or characters may be
added to the Fonts, only if the font is renamed to names not containing either the words “Nafees”
or the word “CRULP”.

3. This License becomes null and void to the extent applicable to Font or Font Software that has
been modified and is distributed under the “Nafees Riqa” names.

4. The Font Software may be sold as part of a larger software package but no copy of one or
more of the Font Software typefaces may be sold by itself.

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