Saturday, June 15, 2013

Aaaaaaaaaugh! My computer is typing in Urdu!

Ahsan: Very well ! . . .. your computer is also learning urdu with you : )

Me: Apparently Windows detected the fact that I was writing a lot of Urdu and automatically added "Urdu (Islamic Republic of Pakistan)" as a keyboard option, so when I accidentally hit the secret key combination that toggles the keyboard, it switched to Urdu instead of its previous favourite, "Canadian French". And what's really strange about this is that MS Word, which is made by the same people, has been consistently telling me that I'm writing "Arabic (Saudi Arabia)". How is it possible that the same machine reads the same text as two different languages?

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