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Rohan (Mostrar perfil) 4 de agosto de 2008 13:14:54
How do I write something in the forums with a non-Latin script like Devanagari?
Thank you.
mnlg (Mostrar perfil) 4 de agosto de 2008 13:24:41
Rohan:How do I write something in the forums with a non-Latin script like Devanagari?You mean this? देवनागरी
I copied-and-pasted from another page, but I guess you can just type it away. You'd have to configure your keymap, I believe.
Rohan (Mostrar perfil) 4 de agosto de 2008 16:18:24
mnlg:You'd have to configure your keymap, I believe.Pardon my complete ignorance of this matter, but how do you 'configure' your 'keymap'? What is a keymap anyway?
I have some Devanagari fonts, and I once made a Word document using them, and tried copy-pasting it here, but to no avail: the pasted text showed only gibberish-ish characters.
mnlg (Mostrar perfil) 4 de agosto de 2008 16:34:34
Rohan:I have some Devanagari fonts, and I once made a Word document using them, and tried copy-pasting it here, but to no avail: the pasted text showed only gibberish-ish characters.You should try using Unicode fonts. They are shipped with most recent operating systems. If you are using Windows XP, the base fonts in your system are unicode (Arial, Verdana, etc). You can find other Unicode fonts for free on the Internet.
Put it simply, a keymap is a correspondence between the keys on your keyboard and the characters they produce when pressed. When using an English keymap, by pressing shift-2 you get the @ symbol. With an Italian keymap and the same combination of keys, you get the double quotes ( " ). If you want to type directly into devanagari, I believe you should set your keyboard preferences accordingly (so that your keys produce Devanagari symbols when pressed), however I have little practice with that alphabet so I can't say for sure.
As long as you stick to Unicode, you should be able to use any alphabet in these forums, as long as your font has glyphs for that alphabet. (not every Unicode font is complete).
See also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode
erinja (Mostrar perfil) 4 de agosto de 2008 17:57:55
This link should help provide the resources you need to get your system set up.
http://mr.wikipedia.org/wiki/विकिपीडिआ_साहाय्य:Setup_For_Devanagari
This page is aimed at helping users set up their computers to type in Marathi. I don't know if you intend to type in Hindi or Marathi (probably Hindi?) but in any case, I think the steps you take should be the same, since Devanagari is used in both cases.
Rohan (Mostrar perfil) 4 de agosto de 2008 18:38:35
Erinja, yes, I intend to type primarily in Marathi, in all those threads which request you to write something in your mother tongue. So far, I'd been transliterating into the Esperanto script, but according to me, that hardly does justice to the visual beauty of the Devanagari script. Hence this thread.
