Hindi Indic IME 1 Version 5.0
Contents
Introduction
Installation
Notes
Introduction
Indic IME gives a very convenient way of entering text in Hindi using the English QWERT keyboard in any Office XP application, wordpad and notepad on Windows 2000/ Windows XP platform.
Office
XP on Windows 2000
Office XP on Windows XP
Installation Notes for
Windows 2000
IMEs cannot be installed or upgraded on a system that doesn't already support IMEs in the same language that you are installing. To enable Indic IME, go to control panel - > regional option and check Indic in "Setting for the system" and insert Win 2K CD in your CD-ROM drive.
Installation Notes for
Windows XP (Whistler)
IMEs cannot be installed or upgraded on a system that doesn't already support IMEs in the same language that you are installing. To enable Indic IME, go to control panel - > regional and Language. Select Language Tab, and check the option “Install files for complex scripts and left-to-right language and insert Win XP CD in your CD-ROM drive.
- Run Hindi Setup.exe and
follow the instructions in the setup program.
- Reboot your system.
Adding
Input Locale
1. Open Text Services in Control Panel.
- Select Keyboard under HI in Installed Services. Click Add.
- Select Hindi in Input Language, check Keyboard Layout /IME box.
And Select Indic IME 1.
- Click OK.
- After
installing Indic IME start any Office application, WordPad or Notepad.
- Click
the Language Indicator located in the System Tray on the right side of the
Windows taskbar, and click to select “Indic IME 1” from the shortcut menu
that appears.
- OR
Press Alt+Shift to navigate between English to Hindi language vice versa
- Start
typing in Hindi.
Customized Wordlist Help On/Off Hindi Transliteration / Hindi Typewriter/ Hindi Inscript AutoText On/Off Hindi/English AutoText
Indic
IME provides support for six types of keyboard:
·
Hindi Transliteration – Using phonetic typing, the user can type his message in Roman using the
Standard English keyboard, which is transliterated on-the-fly to Hindi. It
works on the logic of phonetics and is most effective when you spell the word
the way it is spoken.
·
Hindi Remington- Hindi Remington is usual
Remington Hindi typewriter Typing can be
done as per the key mapping of the Remington keyboard.
·
Hindi Typewriter- Another Hindi keyboard used in
typing. Typing can be done as per the key
mapping of Hindi typewriter keyboard.
·
Inscript Keyboard- Another Hindi Keyboard where the
user types the basic characters in sequence and an underlying logic determines
that which of these characters have to be combined and substituted to form a
glyph.
·
Webdunia Keyboard- Another Hindi keyboard used in
typing. Typing can be done as per the key
mapping of Webdunia Keyboard.
·
Anglo Nagari Keyboard- Another Hindi keyboard used in
typing. Typing can be done as per the key
mapping of Webdunia Keyboard.
Known problems:
- In Excel, text is not
displayed until space, enter or tab is pressed.
- When customized word
list window is closed, a small window remains on screen.
- If text is typed very
fast, Front page, Microsoft Outlook (HTML compose) crashes.
- Randomly crashes in
Excel.
- Performs relatively
slow in Front page, HTML mail in Outlook.
- While switching to
English Keyboard or any other IME, last typed word is lost if not
committed.
- In Front Page and
Microsoft Outlook (HTML compose), Enter has to be pressed twice to get new
line.
- If arrow keys, Pg Up,
Pg Down etc. keys are pressed without committing text(i.e without pressing
space, enter or tab), each key needs to be pressed twice to get the
effect. If text is committed, then these keys work smoothly.