Re: Urdu IDNs

Sarmad Hussain wrote:
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> Dear Najib,
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> The source of the translation is as below:
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> Morroco
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> Ref : Quami Urdu English Dictionary
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> Edited by: Dr Jameel Jalibi
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> Published by: National Language Authority Pakistan
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> Publishing Year:1992, pg. 1272
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> Morroco (noun):مراکش،مراکو
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> Moroccan (Noun) مراکشی باشندہ،مراکش کا رہنے والا،شمالی مغربی افریقہ کا 
> ایک ملک
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> Moroccan (adj)مراکشی
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Dear Sarmad,

This may be the opprtunity to update the dictionnary. :-)
There are some books/authors who still refer to Morocco as Marrakech. 
Historians say it is actually wrong to talk about Morocco as Marrakech.

Any way, I would like your opinion about my second question. See bellow
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> You may be right that the city name has been generalized to refer to 
> the country.  However, this seems to be the conventional translation 
> in Urdu.
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> Best regards,
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> Sarmad
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> [snip]
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> Sarmad Hussain wrote:
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> Dear Martin and others,
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> snip]
> Re. TLDs, the translations are for Urdu only and are just to simply map onto
> existing English TLDs (and are not proposing new Urdu TLDs).  This mapping
> is to allow complete Urdu address, at least on the user interface. `
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> *Second: What do you mean by user interface. Urdu specific 
> applications or UAs in general, e.g. browsers like Firefox and others?*
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The above question.

Best regards,

Najib

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