It has a right-to-left alphabet that uses 58 letters, 39 basic letters and no distinct letter cases. Modern Standard Urdu is a language which combines Sanskrit and Persian words with Arabic, Portuguese, Turkish and many other languages that were brought to south Asia. Not all platforms or operating systems will have Urdu script characters installed, but to make sure characters can be displayed Unicode is primarily used online as a way of making sure that the characters display correctly (ie non-Roman words, accents etc). Enter your Urdu text and this converter will convert it to Unicode.