Encoding
This work is sorted according to the Arabic (Urdu) alphabetical order. Headers have been supplied by the transcriber.
When reading this text, please use the free font [Scheherazade], developed by SIL. This includes all characters required for Urdu, and is far more elegant than the fonts delivered with most computers. SIL is currently also developing a Nastaliq style font called [Awami], which would be even more appropriate for this text, but, unfortunately, is not supported in most browers, and doesn’t include a number of characters used in this old text.
Both the transcription and the Urdu itself is not very consistent; no attempts have been made to improve that. The Urdu transcription used during production of this ebook is as follows:
| Letter | Transcription | Notes | Letter | Transcription | Notes | |
| ا | A | ط | T | |||
| أ | 'a | ظ | Z | |||
| إ | 'i | ع | ` | |||
| آ | 'A | غ | gh | |||
| ٱ | "A | ف | f | |||
| ب | b | ق | q | |||
| ت | t | ڤ | v | |||
| ث | th | ك | k | ك and گ are oftenconfused; ک is often used at the end ofwords. | ||
| ٹ | 't | Rendered with four dots. | گ | g | ||
| پ | p | ک | 'k | |||
| ج | j | ل | l | |||
| ح | H | م | m | |||
| خ | kh | ن | n | |||
| چ | ch | ں | 'n | Noon ghunna. | ||
| د | d | ه | -h | Do-chasmi heh is normallyused for aspirates only. This book is inconsistent in its usage. | ||
| ذ | dh | ہ | x | |||
| ڈ | 'd | Rendered with four dots. | ة | "h | ||
| ر | r | ۀ | e | |||
| ز | z | و | U | |||
| ژ | zh | ؤ | 'u | |||
| ڑ | 'r | Rendered with four dots. | ى | I | ||
| س | s | ي | y | |||
| ش | sh | ئ | 'y | |||
| ص | S | ء | || | |||
| ض | D | ے | E | This book uses ى at the end of words. |