Aksharamala programme

[SD]

Hello,
I would like to know if Aksharamala does work in Mac Book Air/ Apple
computers. Please provide me with details how to use this programme
with Mac book Air laptops.
Thanks a lot,
SD

[sujal upadhyay]

hi,

i dont know how to use aksharamala in Mac OS. Perhaps a software called crossover or its free alternative can let windows native programs run in max os and linux. You need to google for it.

Till then, you can use online tools like google transliterate.

http://www.google.com/transliterate

you can also have a look at this link

http://indiaspirituality.blogspot.com/search/label/itrans

there are some other online alternatives.

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[Sadananda Das]

Thanks a lot Mr. Upadhyaya for your feedback regarding Aksharamala use in Mac. I know about google transliterate and also about I-translator  etc. But I am quite used to with Aksharamala and therefore, I had asked this question. I wanted to buy an Apple Macbook Air. If Aksharamala does not work with it, then I might cancel this idea to buy a Mac.
Thanks for your information,
S. Das

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[Sreedhar Vasista]

Mr. Das, You can try one more software called Akruti. Though this
does not work on Mac, it can give you good results on your Windows
computer

On Oct 1, 3:16 pm, Sadananda Das <spokensansk...@googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Thanks a lot Mr. Upadhyaya for your feedback regarding Aksharamala use in
> Mac. I know about google transliterate and also about I-translator  etc. But
> I am quite used to with Aksharamala and therefore, I had asked this
> question. I wanted to buy an Apple Macbook Air. If Aksharamala does not work
> with it, then I might cancel this idea to buy a Mac.
> Thanks for your information,
> S. Das
>
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 1, 2011 at 7:51 AM, sujal upadhyay <suja...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > hi,
>
> > i dont know how to use aksharamala in Mac OS. Perhaps a software called
> > crossover or its free alternative can let windows native programs run in max
> > os and linux. You need to google for it.
>
> > Till then, you can use online tools like google transliterate.
>
> >http://www.google.com/transliterate
>
> > you can also have a look at this link
>
> >http://indiaspirituality.blogspot.com/search/label/itrans
>
> > there are some other online alternatives.
>

> Fax: +49 341 97 37 148http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~indzaw/doc_.php/staff/das- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

[Sadananda Das]

Thanks for your information.
SDAS

[sujal upadhyay]

There is a difference between akruti, shree lipi and aksharmala (itrans). Bot have their advantages and disadvantages. 

Aksharamala text is searchable and can be uploaded on net and can be viewed on cross platform, if the system has indic language support. Only a indic unicode font is needed g.e. Arial Unicode MS. Search robots can identify and index unicode and itrans text and can show them in the search result. 

Akruti has wide range of fonts to select, good for creative work and making art cover, banner, etc. But typing scheme (keyboard layout) is different from unicode. 

Ubuntu Linux has asian language support and has indic language pack. there is an app called as ibus, through which you can select any language. After enabling the language, who can directly start typing in that language. Keyboard shortcuts are also available to switch between languages. In some languages, more than one keymaps are available. e.g. in gujarati language, i can type using itrans keymap, inscript and phonetic. Text will be in unicode, and searchable.

I dont know if similar app is available in iMac. In opera browser forums, there is a thread regarding rendering of east asian characters (japanese), the questioner was using mac and he said that the east asian language support is inbuilt in Mac, so no need to manually enable it through 'regional and language settings', as in case of windows XP.

All you need is a Indic unicode font and an app (inbuilt or 3rd party app like aksharamala).

Since I do not have Mac, I cannot help you anymore.

Regards

Sujal