Hi Ok so no responses but have been able to figure somethings out
1. The hindi typing works well in Abiword (which also leads me to believe that there is also a bug in Open Office) हिन्दी is pasted with one edit directly from abiword - so thats one problem less (till open office problem gets solved) ram On Jan 4, 2008 11:14 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I have been able to setup the Devanagari / hindi packages and even use > them to type. > > However there are two unresolved issues > > 1. In open office - am unable to type full words - after typing one > letter the next letter does not get typed unless a space is inserted . > this is a pain and makes the whole typing business unusable. > > Funnily the typing works well in gedit, and even within thunderbird. > So is it a problem with Open Office or with the way the hindi script is > setup. (Does such a problem exist in other languages as well) > This issue was raised earlier also but am not sure it was resolved. > > this is text typed in Thunderbird in the Hindi Script *िहन्दी* > this is how it appears in open office *ह ि न ् द ी* > > So any suggestions , advice. > > 2. Am searching for the Unicode Hindi Keyboard Layout > > Tried making one myself - but feel that some characters are missing. > > Have searched the various links posted earlier but nowhere can i find a > visual layout - i.e the hindi script mapped to a qwerty keyboard. Any > place i can find it ??? *ready made* > > > Q q W w E e R r T t Y y > औ ौ ऐ ै आ ा ई ी ऊ ू भ ब > > 3. The question - why is the rendering of the half akshar not happening > > Hindi gets written as *िहन्दी* but say when we remove the spaces within > the open office word it appears properly (it does not appear here as it > does in the open office document. But the half akshar does get rendered > properly. > > Finally what is the formal acceptability of these not rendered half > akshar's - some of the websites have these but say when using the star > dict English hindi dictionary all he half akshar's are rendered properly. > The following is text copied from star dict here again in open office the > half akshar gets rendered properly but pasting it here it appears with > the half अक्षर symbol > > हिन्दी > "'Hindi' हमारे देश की राजभाषा है." > > any suggestions, advice > > thanks > ram > > >
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