Uddin and Begum Hindustani romanisation

Syed Fasih Uddin and Quader Unissa Begum presented the scheme in 1992, at the First International Urdu Conference in Chicago.

that John Borthwick Gilchrist and others began at Fort William College in Calcutta more than a century earlier.

Uddin and Begum attempted to improve on, and modernize, Gilchrist's system in a number of ways.

For example, in the Uddin and Begum scheme, Urdu and Hindi characters correspond one-to-one.

To facilitate Urdu and Hindustani romanisation in a much wider range of computer software, Uddin and Begum limited their character set to the common ASCII standard.