I faced a similar problem, till I adopted the Hindi keyboard layout -which is now being provided free on CD by the ministry of IT. I know of this as phonetic keyboard/inscript which has a more methodical layout of letters on the keyboard ( vowels on the left side of the key board, consonants on the right and arranged in a systematic way). I think linux comes with the Lohit font (FC4) and by adjusting the keyboard layout, you can type hindi easily. If you insist on using the font you have referred, I have found that open office has problem typing special characters which require the use of (ctrl+numbers, or shift+numbers in some cases etc. However, Kword does the job well, except one character which I don't remember now. You can work in kword and copy it back to openoffice or whereever. But I will suggest you to try the inscript/phonetic keyboard layout, now quite standard with most of the linux distributions. Rajesh On 11/15/05, Abhay Kedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Microsoft Multimedia Keyboard 1.0A and am trying to type in Hindi > in > OpenOffice under KDE 3.4.3. I am facing problems in typing special > characters > like sri and tra. Also as shown in devanagri keymap when I use number keys > with "Shift" key, I should get special characters but instead I get the > actual symbols that are drawn on keyboard (screenshots attached for > reference). > > Since xorg does not support my keyboard, I am using an alternate keyboard > layout "Microsoft Internet Keyboard". I have also tried using "104 keys > keyboard" layout but that didn't help either. On the other hand, using Hindi > > keyboard with traditional hindi layout on Windows XP works well in > OpenOffice > with all characters working smoothly. > > Please help me and give me some ideas on how to go about solving this > problem. > Do I need to use some alternate keyboard model? Can I use Windows' keyboard > layout in Linux? Is it a problem with the layout of the keyboard model I > have > selected? I have searched but found nothing helpful. Any ideas will be > highly > appreciated. > > Thanks in advance. > > Regards, > Abhay > > Linux Screenshot: > http://img424.imageshack.us/my.php?image=specialcharslin6nj.jpg > > Windows Screenshot: > http://img269.imageshack.us/my.php?image=specialcharswin9hx.jpg > _______________________________________________ > ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] > http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd > Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > >
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