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The answer is Unicode.

I’ll leave you with two links which will help you setup your computer two browse and write in Hindi

• Why can’t I see the Hindi section?
• Cannot see Hindi
• Apna Blog
• Information Regrading Gurmukhi Unicode Fonts – Use some comon sense and the same information will help you with any language.

Go through these pages and Google for more stuff.

What I did was use a phonetic tool using transliteration (like when you type rAhul using your keyboard it writes राहुल) called HindiWriter. Its almost like the IME (using transliteration) provided by Microsoft but even better. I actually couldn’t get IME working in Office 2003. The only editor in which it worked was Notepad. But HindiWriter worked in almost all programs that I tried, even the browsers, to type text in Hindi.

But HindiWriter restricts you only to Hindi. Here is where a unicode text editor SC UniPad. Download and install the text editor. Fire it up and select a keyboard. SC UniPad supports many languages and you can use it to type Punjabi also. The only hitch is that initially you will have to use your muose to type until you get used to key layout cause the default keyboard is not phonetic. Here is where I’ll solve the problem. Download this keyboard for SC UniPad. Its a phonetic keyboard for Devanagiri to be used in SC UniPad which makes the program work like HindiWriter.

Another useful program is Baraha which lets you type in multiple Indian languages and BarahaIME works just like HindiWriter.

That’s it from my side.

Don’t forget to visit the Akshargram wiki for lots of other information and just go through this blog entry and the comments as well.

Here is a good list of offline and online Hindi and other Indian language typing tools :
How to type in Hindi

One final word… Hindi seems to be a little choppy in Firefox whereas it shows perfectly in Opera and IE.

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