Abdul-Majid Bhurgri, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Place of Birth: Qambar Shahdadkot District, Sindh, Pakistan
About Abdul-Majid Bhurgri
- Abdul-Majid Bhurgri (Sindhi: ????????? ??????, Urdu: ????????? ???????), (born February 8, 1948) is the founder of computing in the Sindhi language.
- He hails from Larkana, Pakistan, and now lives in Seattle.
- His work from 1987–88 enabled the use of Sindhi on personal computers and revolutionized the Sindhi printing and publishing industry.From 2000–01, Bhurgri developed the first Sindhi Unicode font, obtained support for Sindhi on the Microsoft Windows platform, developed resources to make the use of standard Sindhi possible on the Windows operating system, and made these resources freely available on the Internet.In 2002, Bhurgri wrote a paper for Microsoft titled “Enabling Pakistani Languages Through Unicode”.
- Referring to Bhurgri’s paper, Microsoft’s Michael S.
- Kaplan wrote on his blog: “This is pretty exciting, since at one point Sindhi was being considered for Vista (but was ultimately not done).
- I suspect that Abdul-Majid Bhurgri (who I was in contact with back in 2007 talking about Urdu and Sindhi) will be pleased to see Sindhi finally being added to Windows 8.”
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