Microsoft included this keyboard along with Urdu Language Locale in its Windows XP operating system for personal computers. In 2001, the National Database and Registration Authority of Pakistan fully adopted this keyboard for Data Entry operations of the Computerized National Identity Cards. The Keyboard version 1 was finalized by NLA on December 14, 1999. In July 2000, UZT 1.01 was standardized for all kinds of electronic computing, communications, and storage.īased on this version, Urdu language support was incorporated into the Versions 3.1 and 4.0 of Unicode. This resulted in the formation of Urdu Zabta Takhti ( ) (UZT). These issues were addressed through the standardization of keyboard. The keyboard had 46 keys to type 71 Urdu consonants, vowels, diacritics, and punctuation marks, and 21 key symbols for arithmetic calculations and digits. This underscored an urgent need for a standard form of keyboard adaptable for diverse users. These developments helped the keyboard layout to evolve from the typewriters to be compatible with computers, to increase the productivity and textual efficiency of the language, especially through modern electronic media. Modern improvements in Urdu keyboard were pioneered by the National Language Authority ( Muqtadra-e-Qaumi Zaban ) in Pakistan, which standardized the linguistic aspects such as orthography and lexicography.
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