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    Tips for use of Hindi on your computer

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    Tips for use of Hindi on your computer

    I have been successfully using Hindi language on this site, though on a trial basis. The best example of this is my thread दादा बस्तीराम की जुबान से (Time Pass Forum) and also Dev Dahiya’s thread Ghar Ke Bheddi in the same forum, where I have presented his few poems in Hindi. However, some of you who do not have WindowsXP PCs, may be facing difficulty in watching Devanagri script on Jatland.

    In India, there are a few sets of Devanagari software programmes developed successfully by various programmers/ firms. Most notable is “Leap Office” and “Aksara XP”. But these programmes do not fit into web browsers and sending communications via e-mail etc.

    Very few users know that WindowsXP Operating System contains Devanagri fonts which are useful for watching and posting Hindi/ Sanskrit/ Marathi texts on the Internet. I am explaining below the method how to extract the fonts and how interested members can form Hindi letters (though not as efficiently as one can do using a traditional Hindi keyboard of ‘Godrej’ settings).

    In WindowsXP :

    Step 1

    - Press ‘Start’ and then go to ‘Control Panel’

    - In ‘Control Panel’ double-click the icon “Regional and Language Options”. A separate window will appear.

    - Check option “Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages (including Thai)”. Press “Apply” and then “OK”.

    Fonts will be extracted.

    Step 2

    - Go to “Control Panel” – “Regional and Language Options”. A tiny window titled “Text Services and Input Languages” will appear. Press “Languages” and then press button “Details”. A mini window will appear.

    - Click “Advanced” and check the box “Extend support of advanced text services to all programs”. Then “Apply”

    - After this step, again (in the same mini window), press “settings”.

    - In a box, you will find the word “Keyboard”. Click it and press “Add”. A mini window “Add Input Language” will appear.

    - Under Keyboard layout/IME, press ‘down’ arrow button. A list of languages will appear.

    - Choose ‘Hindi traditional’ or ‘Devanagari Inscript’. Then ‘OK’ and ‘Apply’. Either on ‘Desktop’ or in ‘Taskbar’, a small icon of languages will be created.

    - Close all windows.
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    To test whether Hindi fonts have been extracted, go to ‘Control Panel’ and then ‘Fonts’ folder. There, find out whether font file ‘Mangal’ exists or not.

    To test Hindi typing, open ‘wordpad’ programme. Click the ‘language’ button in taskbar and choose the language ‘Hindi traditional’ or ‘Devanagari Inscript’ as the case may be.

    Start typing from letter 1-2-3-4-5-6- and q-w-e-r-t-y-u-i-o-p etc: Following text will appear:


    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 - ृ ौ ै ा ी ू ब ह ग द ज ड ़ ॉ ो े ् ि ु प र क त च ट ं म न व ल स , . य

    In the second step, put your left-hand thumb on the ‘Shift’ key and start typing with a left hand finger in the same method, starting from ‘1”. The following text will appear:

    ऍ ॅ ्र र् ज्ञ त्र क्ष श्र ( ) ः ऋ औ ऐ आ ई ऊ भ ङ घ ध झ ढ ञ ऑ ओ ए अ इ उ फ ऱ ख थ छ ठ ँ ण ळ श ष । य़

    So, it will not be a Hindi keyboard as we have our standard ‘Godrej’ in India. Now, it is up to you to make out a few Hindi words by “cut & paste” method on the Wordpad or MS-Word. For this, one should have a good knowledge of Devanagri alphanets, half-forms, and dots etc. A Sanskrit-knowing person would be more perfect in this job as his knowledge of Devanagari letter-formatting is naturally more accurate.

    Users of Window98/ME/2000 etc. :

    As explained above, after extracting Hindi fonts on a WindowsXP PC, open the “Control Panel” and “Fonts” folder. From there, copy the font file ‘Mangal’ on a floppy disk or any other external device. It is a short file (140 KB).

    Then, copy this file to other computer (with OP Windows98 etc.) in Control Panel/Fonts. Restart the computer. In this way, you would be able to watch Hindi text at least on Jatland site.

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    Last edited by dndeswal; March 26th, 2006 at 03:17 AM.
    तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय

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    Thanks Deswal ji, It is a great piece of info...thanks for taking pains in explaining in Details.
    "LIFE TEACHES EVERY ONE IN A NATURAL WAY.NO ONE CAN ESCAPE THIS REALITY"

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    Thanks !

    Deswal sir thanks very much for the information. You have done a great job.
    I got Hindi in my PC today and I am very happy.
    Soon I will post some stuff in Hindi as well.

    Thanks very much again.
    जाट महान
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    very good deswal sir hindi premiyo ko ish se achhi bheth kya hogi
    Make yourself an honest man, and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world
    SUBHASH DHAYAL

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    What can be done to work in Hindi in Linux. Though there is an option of selecting regional language as Hindi, the display is not proper. Also
    the web browsers (Mozilla & Mozilla firefox) on linux (redhat fedora core 2), do not display Hindi fonts properly at least on my machine. Even in window, mozilla firefox doesn't displays the hindi fonts though I have Installed the true type fonts on the machine. Can any body help???
    shalini

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    Further tips

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    There is considerable enthusiasm among members to post something in Hindi. Some have made sincere efforts in the last few days. I have been successfully using Hindi in my posts. There are many posts by me which are only in Hindi, the latest being my short play Kissa-e Maham-Chaubissi . [Here is the summary of some of the software programmes which can be downloaded for use of Hindi. Some programmes have been suggested by various members, I am compiling them at one place for easy reference, quoting my own experience with those.

    (i) The website of Department of Information Technology provides free software for use of Hindi on various Windows based programmes. If one downloads this on PC, then various menus in MS-Words etc. would be converted in Hindi and file names would be able to be saved in Hindi. I have tested it but later uninstalled from the machine because of some irritants which occur. But those who are IT experts, can well solve these petty irritants. The Links is: http://www.ildc.gov.in


    (ii) The following site of ‘Tavultesoft’ provides freeware software by which the keyboard can be used to type Hindi in Wordpad and then pasted on MS-Word etc. This system is called “Transliteration’ i.e. you type Hindi in Roman script and Hindi text will appear in Devanagari script. I am using this programme now-a-days. It is fully compatible, using ‘Mangal’ font, which is part of Windows XP system. Just try – wonderful. Here is the link:

    http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/downloads/keyboards/


    (iii) ‘Braha’ is an Indian software, completely free. This also uses ‘Transliteration’ system : http://www.baraha.com/baraha70.htm . Excellent !


    (iv) One more link for ‘Transliteration’ system – not bad, just try. http://www.iit.edu/~laksvij/language/hindi.html


    (v) Those who want to write a few words in Hindi with the help of a mouse, can go to the following website (no need to download any programme). This also works on ‘Shusha’ fonts: Font ‘Mangal’ is also used and it can be used for posting material on web: http://www.geocities.com/matthewblac...ndiEditor.html

    (vi) The following web link provides Hindi ‘Shusha Fonts’. No comments, but just have a look:
    http://www.abhivyakti-hindi.org/abhi...ts_dl_help.htm

    (vii) And finally, the following link:

    http://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%80%C2%A4%C2%AE%C3%A0%C2%A4%C2%A5%C3%A0%C2%A5%C 2%81%C3%A0%C2%A4%C2%B0%C3%A0%C2%A4%C2%BE

    I am myself not an expert in IT – only a novice, but experience counts - am using Hindi successfully on this site. Depends how much interest one takes.
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    Last edited by dndeswal; April 21st, 2006 at 02:42 AM.
    तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय

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    thanks dayanand ji.............................
    Men may come and men may go, but I go on forever

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    Font "Mangal" - free download

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    Further to my post above. Font 'Mangal' is also available for free download from the following Internet Link:


    http://vedantijeevan.com:9700/font.htm

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    तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय

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    I Tried but it asked for XP CD which i have dont have
    सच्चे शब्दों में सच के अहसास लिखेंगे ...
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    हमने कलम उठाइ, तो इतिहास लिखेंगे...!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by dndeswal View Post
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    Further to my post above. Font 'Mangal' is also available for free download from the following Internet Link:


    http://vedantijeevan.com:9700/font.htm

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    Informative thread




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    Linux Hindi

    Quote Originally Posted by shalini View Post
    What can be done to work in Hindi in Linux. Though there is an option of selecting regional language as Hindi, the display is not proper. Also
    the web browsers (Mozilla & Mozilla firefox) on linux (redhat fedora core 2), do not display Hindi fonts properly at least on my machine. Even in window, mozilla firefox doesn't displays the hindi fonts though I have Installed the true type fonts on the machine. Can any body help???
    A lot of us use linux as our primary desktop and face no problems usually. As for mozilla, you need CTL enabled builds. Just do a search on google if your distribution does not do it by default.

    Although in modern distributions, it should work out of the box, I am not sure about fedora because I moved to debian and then ubuntu and have never repented. If you don't have a cd/dvd for a recent distribution, you can request free ubuntu cds to be delivered to you from their website. www.ubuntu.com .

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    Lightbulb Firfox Browser Bug!!!

    Dear Jatlanders,

    Kindly use MS Internet Explorer while browsing text in Hindi here on Jatland or anywhere.....I found out a irritating bug in Firefox!!

    Firfox browser shows correct matras wrong!!! so you might have come across that hindi text is shown with wrong matras....so better use Internet Explorer while browsing text in hindi!!!

    Hope it helps!!

    Rock on
    Jit
    .. " Until Lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter! " ..



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    Problem with copy paste of Hindi text

    I am facing a problem while copy paste of Hindi text. For example one line of Hindi copied from a word file with kruti font becomes following text. Can some body suggest a solution.

    vk;ksZ dk mn~xe rFkk oSfnd] jkek;.k] egkHkkjr vkSj
    ckS)&dkyhu fLFkfr

    If I type on a web type writer or Jatland Wiki Hindi symbols there is no problem in copy paste but it takes a lot of time to type there. Please find the way how to go about in above so that a lot of time can be saved.
    Laxman Burdak

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    Quote Originally Posted by lrburdak View Post
    I am facing a problem while copy paste of Hindi text. For example one line of Hindi copied from a word file with kruti font becomes following text. Can some body suggest a solution.

    vk;ksZ dk mn~xe rFkk oSfnd] jkek;.k] egkHkkjr vkSj
    ckS)&dkyhu fLFkfr

    If I type on a web type writer or Jatland Wiki Hindi symbols there is no problem in copy paste but it takes a lot of time to type there. Please find the way how to go about in above so that a lot of time can be saved.
    I pasted the following text on a MS Word document, highlighted it and chose font ‘KrutiPad 100’.

    vk;ksZ dk mn~xe rFkk oSfnd] jkek;.k] egkHkkjr vkSj
    ckS)&dkyhu fLFkfr

    The following text appeared in Word document, which is copied below:

    vk;ksZ dk mn~xe rFkk oSfnd] jkek;.k] egkHkkjr vkSj
    ckS)&dkyhu fLFkfr


    I am using browser Internet Explorer 6.0. Please try it in case you are using a different browser. Hope Kruti fonts are installed on your computer. I am still not sure if all of you are reading the Hindi text above, because of font problem.
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    तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय

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    For Linux operating system I think it is best to use Quillpad a web based phonetic Hindi typing software. It can also be used on many other platforms too, I e with FB, WA apps.

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    अगर आप कंप्यूटर पर नहीं हो, रास्ते में किताब पढ़ रहे हो और लगे कि यह विषय हिन्दी में टाइप करना है तो आप अपने मोबाईल में लैड्ग्वेज हिन्दी शेट करलो. खुद को ईमेल करो और जब मैसेज बॉक्स खुले तो की बोर्ड के माईक को दबाओ. अब आप बोलोगे वह हिन्दी में टाइप हो जाएगा. अपने को मेल करलो. घर जाकर कम्प्यूटर या लैपटाप में ईमेल खोलकर शेव करलो.
    Laxman Burdak

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    dndeswal (September 8th, 2018)

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    I tried but i didnt succeed........
    Jai Hind

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    Quote Originally Posted by monidahiya View Post
    i tried but i didnt succeed........
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  20. #19

    UNICODE on mobile phones

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    आजकल मोबाइल फोन काफी इस्तेमाल में है और इस पर इंटरनेट सुविधा भी है । अपने कई जाटलैंडर भी मोबाइल पर ही पोस्ट पढ़ते हैं पर हिन्दी वाली पोस्ट पढ़ नहीं पाते । हो सकता है मेरी यह पोस्ट भी वे न पढ़ पायें ।

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    तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय

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    DND Ji...mere mobile mein Hindi dekhayi to deti hai....par kuch shrink si hoti hai....samjhney ke liye deemag lagana paddta hai
    Quote Originally Posted by dndeswal View Post
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    आजकल मोबाइल फोन काफी इस्तेमाल में है और इस पर इंटरनेट सुविधा भी है । अपने कई जाटलैंडर भी मोबाइल पर ही पोस्ट पढ़ते हैं पर हिन्दी वाली पोस्ट पढ़ नहीं पाते । हो सकता है मेरी यह पोस्ट भी वे न पढ़ पायें ।

    इसका भी कोई जुगाड़ जरूर होगा । शायद ब्राउजर में Regional Setting को सैट करना पड़ता है । एक blogger ने लिखा है कि जो मोबाइल फोन हिन्दी भाषा को सपोर्ट नहीं करते उनको बायकाट करें । मोबाइल सैट खरीदते समय दुकानदार से पूछें कि सेट हिन्दी को सपोर्ट करता है या नहीं । हम जागरूक रहेंगे तो उत्पादक हमारे पीछे पीछे घूमेंगे ।

    मोबाइल फोन पर surfing का मेरा अनुभव ज्यादा नहीं है । आपको इसका कुछ पता हो तो यहां पर लिखें । वैसे एक बेबसाइट है - http://www.skyfire.com/

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