Q: Is it possible to transliterate from Kannada into Hindi? I have the data in Microsoft Word 2003 doc file.
A: Surprisingly the answer is YES. Many people are not aware of this little feature built into Microsoft Word 2003. The steps are like this -
Q: I downloaded and installed the Kannada IME from Bhasha India web-site. Still I don't get Kannada properly in Windows XP. I see blank squares when I type using the Kannada IME. Why?
A: The Bhasha India IME will add additional keyboard layouts also known as Input Method Editor (IME) only.
Q: I tyied to copy a opentype font into the windows mobile, and it can not show the characters corrently. Is there any solution such as "ups10.dll", a special dll for windows mobile?
A: The answer is big NO. Just by copying the opentype font into the device will make to display the text shown without the proper rendering (glyph substitution, glyph positioning etc. are not done). WinCE 5.0 itself has introduced the fecility to have internationalization including the rendering of opentype fonts. I had built a mobile device platform using the WinCE 5.0 SDK long ago. I also developed a multilingual notepad -English, Hindi and Kannada - employing Visual Studio .NET Compact Framework, way back in 2004 itself. But none of the devices available in the market allow me to replace their OS by the one built by me. They neither include the components required for rendering the opentype font also. I have sent emails to HTC, the largest manufacturer of Windows Mobile devices requesting them to include these compnents. My email was not replied at all. I have repeatedly requested Microsoft India to take up the issue with device manufacturers like HP, HTC, etc. They also did not bother. This is the situation.
Q. How can I get Oriya in Windows?
A. Windows XP does not have support for Oriya. That has been included in Windows Vista. The opentype font used for Oriya is called Kalinga. Vista has the Oriya locale also. One can have date, time, currency in Oriya. One can also have the files with names typed in Oriya. Windows explorer will properly sort the files as per Oriya sorting order. Shown below are two screenshots -one from Notepad and another from Word 2007.
