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How to bring a language to the future

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ByShare this storyy the time Mudassir Azeemi wrote to Apple CEO Tim Cook in 2014, he’d tried everything he could think of to make it easier to type in his native language, Urdu. In 2010, the now 42-year-old Pakistani-American developed a keyboard app you could use on iOS devices; within two years, it had been downloaded over 165,000 times. But even with an Urdu-language keyboard, the characters appeared on the screen in an entirely different font.“Dear Mr Tim Cook,” he wrote. “Urdu language’s beauty lies in the typeface.”Spoken by nearly 170 million people in South Asia and the South Asian...

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