Indian Languages

[Amber G.]

Kaushal -

I am sure you and others here know more than I do, and all this be trivial stuff but ...

If you are using Windows XP with word, Arial Unicode (and thus most of Indian scripts fonts) are there already. You may insert the Telugu fonts here they look like:

అఆఇఈఉఊఋఌఎఏఐఒఓఔకఖగఘ

I have used "Akshar" for Devanagari script for last many years (Bought it almost 10 years ago) starting from pre-window days etc.. but I am not what you call a heavy user..

I also like "aksharmala" (you may have to do google - to find out where to buy it) . The program is/was free for personal use (and very modestly prices if you use it for business etc) .. Basically you type on standard keyboard using Roman script and it puts the scripted fonts in any application. I used it for Devnagri scripts, but since the alphabet is almost same in Telugu, it should work there too. It's not as good as a professional language specific keyboard but if you are willing to type "ka" to look like क (I am using devnagri here because that is what I have installed) you can do the typing in any word processing package, web forum (or here) or any application which support uncode fonts..fairly easily.

The table looks like:
http://www.aczoom.com/itrans/tlgutx/node3.html

Redifmail allows you to type in Telugu (Then you cut and paste that in Word)

Latex (If you use math typing ) has Telugu packages too..

If you don't want to install anything on your computer but wants to use web based transliteration program .. I find Itrans site (http://www.aczoom.com/itrans/)
very nice.

Web interface is at many mirror sites eg:
http://sanskrit.gde.to/web-interface/hari.html

Latex examples:
http://www.aczoom.com/itrans/ex_latex/ex_latex.html


(My son (BTW he is graduating from Duke in Physics and Math with Minor in classical languages) took sanskrit for a semester and he used that to write the paper etc.) ... You can install the package on your computer , if you want, but if not,
type it on the web, it will translate and put the output in gif/pdf/ or unicode font..

Hope that helps.

BTW may be we should have a thread here for Indian fonts / word processors/ language tools etc..