Devanagari Input Method Editor (IME)

[VishNu Shaastrii]

One of our members asked me about creating an IME or modifying an existing keyboard. Microsoft has just such a tool that you can download for free. Here is the link:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=8be579aa-780d-4253-9e0a-e17e51db2223&displaylang=en

 

If you have specialized needs when typing देवनागरी, then this is the utility to use. For example one of my colleagues in California wished to have a Sankrit keyboard that enabled him to type many Rig-Vedic signs and he and I created an IME called Vidyut for this purpose. Here is the link to that project and its documentation:

http://www.mywhatever.com/sanskrit/vidyut/ 

 

Hint: to save you lots of time in looking up the Unicode addresses for Sanskrit letters and conjunct consonants use the following link:

 

http://www.sanskritweb.net/cakram/ 

 

This site is a 'gold mine' of information. E.g. it has the data on >4000 glyphs in देवनागरी! Happy browsing.

 

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[venugopal gudimetla]

Sirs, is there a such a tool for linux users? I can't read Sanskrit script in my gmail. Any help would be appreciated.

Regards,
Venu

[Adolf von Württemberg]

प्रिय Venu,

I do not know of such a tool for Linux but another member of our group can perhaps help.

I have no problem reading the Devanagari script in my g-mail or indeed composing sentences in Sanskrit using g-mail. G-mail is Unicode compliant. Do any other members of our group have a suggestion for Venu?

 

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[dhaval patel]

you may try

http://linux.softpedia.com/get/Internet/Firefox-Extensions/Indic-IME-Firefox-21887.shtml

i dont have linux therefore cant tell how effective it is

[venugopal gudimetla]

Sri Adoolf and Sri Dhaval,

Thank you very much. I will try Dhaval's link, I need to activate some options I guess to make it read Unicode, even though my browser says, unicode is enabled. But Thank you very much for the pointers.

Regards,

Venu