Help:Multilingual support (Indic)

Several pages on WikiQueer use Indic scripts to illustrate the native representation of names, places, quotes and literature. Unicode is the encoding used on WikiQueer and it contains support for a number of Indic scripts. However, before Indic scripts can be viewed or edited, support for complex text layout must be enabled on your operating system. Some older operating systems do not support complex text rendering and you should not use such systems to edit Indic scripts. Google Chrome does not support any of the official scripts of India, Nepal, and Bangladesh apart from Gurmukhi.

This page lists the methods for enabling complex text rendering based on the operating environment or browser you are using. Many of the methods highlighted can also be used for non-Indic complex scripts such as Arabic.

Check for existing support
The following table compares how a correctly enabled computer would render the following scripts with how your computer renders them:

If the rendering on your computer matches the rendering in the images for the scripts, then you have already enabled complex text support. You should be able to view text correctly in that script. However, this does not mean you will be able to edit text in that script. To edit such text you need to have the appropriate text entry software on your operating system.

Devanagari bilingual Keyboard InScript layout
To type in Devanagari script, use of InScript इन्स्क्रिप्ट keyboard is a permanent and easy solution. Inscript is standard developed by CDAC and approved by Government of India. This keyboard can be configured to work with Windows 2000, Windows XP, Ubuntu Linux and fedora Linux etc. See below sections for detailed instructions.

Windows 95/98/ME and NT
These operating systems contain no inbuilt support for Indic scripts. Indic Scripts can only be seen properly in Internet Explorer. You also need to have an appropriate Unicode font installed in your system for that script. It is suggested to install Internet Explorer 6.0 because it has better support for Indic scripts.

Mozilla Firefox did not support Indic scripts properly on these operating systems unless a modified version of the program is used, such as the one found here. This is due to bugs in Firefox,. This bug was fixed in Firefox 3, but Firefox 3 does not support Windows 98/ME.

No Unicode Keyboard Driver Engines (like Indic IME, BarahaIME etc.) are available for these older systems. One can either use online typing tools or offline text editors specially made for this purpose. A list of such tools is given here.

Windows 2000
Supports: Devanagari, Kannada, Tamil

Complex text support needs to be manually enabled.

Viewing Indic text

 * Go to Start > Settings > Control Panel > Regional Options > General [Tab].
 * In the "Language settings for this system" frame, check the box next to "Indic".
 * Copy the appropriate files from the Windows 2000 CD when prompted.
 * If prompted, reboot your computer once the files have been installed.

If you don't have the Windows CD or don't want to juggle with CD right now, you can simply download this zip file and extract its contents to a folder. When prompted for Windows CD, simply point to this folder using 'Browse' option of the prompt window.

Inputting Indic text
You must follow the steps above before you perform the remaining steps.


 * Select "Input Locale" [Tab].
 * Click the "Add" button in the "Installed input locales" frame.
 * Select the desired language in the "Input Locale" drop-down box on the "Add Input Locale" dialogue box.
 * Now select the appropriate keyboard you wish to use.
 * If you select Inscript Keyboard here, you can use Devenagari bilingual keyboard available in market. See above.
 * For the people who are not able to use the above InScript Keyboard, can use the Phonetic keyboards from Baraha. Baraha Direct included in Baraha Package supports both ANSI & Unicode while BarahaIME supports only Unicode.
 * For people who cannot download the above software, or for people on the move, dboard is an Indian language sandbox which provides an online virtual (visual) keyboard, you can use the following application, copy the text on the clipboard and then copy it back to the WikiQueer editing box.

Windows XP and Server 2003
Supports: Bengali (XP SP2), Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam (XP SP2), Tamil, Telugu. The default Bengali font, Vrinda, appears too small, so it might be desirable to install another font. Oriya works with SP2 and later if you install unicode fonts.

Indic text display and input support can be automatically installed without need of Windows XP CD by using a tool IndicXP (Lite). It installs Indic fonts, Uniscribe (CTL rendering engine) support and virtual keyboards for various Indic scripts.

Viewing Indic text (Manual method)

 * 1) Install at least one Unicode font in your system, associated with the language that you want to view correctly, or install a Unicode font which contains large character set for many different languages.
 * 2) Go to Start > Control Panel.
 * 3) If you are in "Category View" select the icon that says "Date, Time, Language and Regional Options" and then select "Regional and Language Options".
 * 4) If you are in Classic View select the icon that says "Regional and Language Options".
 * 5) Select the "Languages" tab and make sure you select the option saying "Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages (including Thai)". A confirmation message should now appear - press "OK" on this confirmation message.
 * 6) Allow the OS to install necessary files from the Windows XP CD and then reboot if prompted.
 * 7) Install or Enable your Language(Script) support on your web-browser software:
 * 8) * On Internet Explorer 6: Go to Tools → Internet Options → General → Languages, and add your particular language(s) that you want to view correctly.
 * 9) * On Firefox 1.5: Go to Tools → Options → Advanced → General → Edit Languages..., and add your particular languages(s) that you want to view correctly.
 * 10) * On Firefox 3.0: Go to Tools → Options → Content → Languages → Choose..., and add your particular languages(s) that you want to view correctly. Doesn't work for Firefox 3.6.13 though!
 * 11) Go to your web-browser's "view" menu and set the "character encoding" or "encoding" feature to: Unicode (UTF-8).

In Firefox, if Indic Scripts are still appearing incorrectly, you may then use the latest version of usp10.dll on your system and it may also be necessary to install a Unicode OpenType font.

This is an optional step, only when you want to use a specific Unicode font for your chosen particular language(s) for viewing webpages.
 * 1) To use a specific font for webpages:
 * 2) * For Internet Explorer 6: Go to Tools → Internet options → Fonts, choose your particular language from the Language Script pulldown menu and select a font from one of the available fonts for that particular language in your system.
 * 3) * For Firefox 1.5: Go to Tools → Options → Content tab → Advanced… in the Fonts and colors section. In the pop up window titled "Fonts", select your particular language from the "Fonts for:" pulldown Menu and set a font that is associated with your particular language of your choice, for various kinds of fields like Serif, Sans Serif, Monospace, etc. to be used for showing webpages.
 * 4) * For Opera 9: Go to Tools → Preferences → Advanced tab → Fonts → International fonts → choose your particular language from the drop down list. Select a font for your language of your choice. In most of the cases, Opera automatically detects if you have enabled Unicode support and installed fonts, so you may not require this step.

Tibetan is properly supported since Firefox 4.

Inputting Indic text
Windows XP has inbuilt InScript Keyboards for nearly all Indian languages. You can add them via Control Panel. You must follow the steps above before you perform the remaining steps.


 * In the "Regional and Language Options", click the "Languages" tab.
 * Click on the "Details" button.
 * Click the "Add" button to add a keyboard for your particular language.
 * In the drop-down box, select your required Indian language.
 * Make sure the check box labelled "Keyboard layout/IME" is selected and ensure you select an appropriate keyboard.
 * Now select "OK" to save changes.

You can use the combination Alt to switch between different keyboard layouts (e.g. from a UK Keyboard to Gurmukhi and vice-versa). If you want a language bar, you can select it by pressing the "Language Bar…" button on the "Text Services and Input Languages" dialog and then selecting "Show the language bar on my desktop". The language bar enables you to visually select the keyboard layout you are using.
 * For the people who are not able to use the above InScript Keyboard, there are some other Keyboard Drivers available. For Phonetic typing Baraha IME or Google IME is suggested and for Remington typing IndicIME is suggested.

Baraha and PramukhIME are Phonetic based software and includes nearly all of Indic languages. Baraha Direct included in Baraha Package supports both ANSI & Unicode while Baraha IME supports only Unicode.
 * Indic IME 1 (v5.0) is available from Microsoft Bhasha India. This supports Hindi Scripts, Gujarati, Kannada and Tamil. Indic IME 1 gives the user a choice between a number of keyboards including Phonetic, InScript and Remington.

If you do not have Windows CD, there is a modified version of the installer for Hindi named IndicXP Plus which automatically installs Indic Support as well as Hindi Indic IME.


 * For people who cannot download the above software, or for people on the move, Google Transliteration is an online Indian language typing tool which provides an online virtual keyboard, you can use the following application, copy the text on the clipboard and then copy it back to the WikiQueer editing box.
 * MyMyanmar Projects provide MyMyanmar Unicode System to input Myanmar(Burmese) text.

Windows Vista and Windows 7
Supports: Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Sinhala, Tamil, Telugu, Tibetan. The default Bengali font, Vrinda, appears too small, so it might be desirable to install another font.

Complex text support is automatically enabled.

Viewing Indic text
You do not need to do anything to enable viewing of Indic text, except Burmese script (examples: +  →  and ) which needs a font not pre-installed on Vista. Follow the help provided in Template:Burmese characters at the right.

The pre-installed Khmer fonts in Windows Vista and Windows 7 are generally considered illegible due to their tiny default point. If desired these fonts may be replaced with other Khmer Unicode fonts available online. See http://www.selapa.net/khmerfonts/ for a list of Khmer Unicode fonts.

Inputting Indic text
Windows Vista, like Windows XP, has inbuilt InScript keyboards for nearly all Indian languages. You can add them via the Control Panel.


 * 1) Go to Start → Control Panel
 * 2) If you are in normal view, select Change keyboards or other input methods from under Clock, Language and Region.
 * 3) If you are in Classic view, select Regional and Language Options.
 * 4) Select the Keyboards and Languages tab if it is not already selected.
 * 5) Select the Change keyboards... button.
 * 6) Choose you desired language(s) from the list and expand them using the '+' sign. Then, expand the item which says Keyboard and tick your preferred keyboard layout(s).
 * 7) Select OK, and OK again to save the changes.

The default hot key combination for switching between languages is Alt.

The following software allows typing in Indian scripts:
 * Microsoft Bhasha India IME – both phonetic and several traditional (InScript, Remington, etc.) input methods
 * Google IME – phonetic text input
 * Baraha IME – phonetic text input
 * PramukhIME – phonetic text input

Mac OS 9 and earlier
The Indian Language Kit, available from Apple at additional cost, provides support for Devanagari, Gujarati and Gurmukhi. No third-party Unicode solutions are known, though numerous custom-encoded fonts exist.

Mac OS X
Inbuilt support:
 * Mac OS 10.3 and earlier support Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi
 * Mac OS 10.4 adds support for Tamil
 * Mac OS 10.5 adds support for Tibetan
 * Mac OS 10.7 adds support for Kannada, Telugu, Bengali/Assamese, Malayalam, Sinhala, Oriya, Lao, Khmer and Burmese.

Additional fonts:
 * Free fonts for nearly all Indic scripts available from nickshanks.com
 * Free Bangla fonts and keyboard available from ekushey.org
 * Free Kannada fonts and keyboard available from nickshanks.com
 * Free Telugu font available from nickshanks.com, keyboard from doe.carleton.ca
 * Free Malayalam fonts and keyboards available from
 * Free Sinhala font available from nickshanks.com
 * Free Khmer font available from Nimol's blog or Danh Hong's blog or by downloading any Khmer font from Google Web Fonts
 * Free Oriya font available via Apple's iOS Simulator. See nickshanks.com for details.
 * Free Burmese font: Martin Hosken's Padauk

Non-free fonts and keyboards for all Indic scripts are available from xenotypetech.com

Note: Additional fonts for these scripts have to be in /Library/Fonts in order for text to be displayed.

Viewing Indic text
You do not need to do anything to enable viewing of Indic text as long as you have installed a suitable font. The Indic text will be displayed by Safari or most other Cocoa applications, which fully support rearrangement and substitution for AAT-based fonts, and it will be displayed by Firefox after 4.0 which fully supports rearrangement and substitution for OpenType-based fonts by using HarfBuzz. Opera also provides some support, although considerable bugs remain as of version 11.01 (though Opera at least renders the glyphs).

Carbon applications such as Microsoft Word and Adobe Photoshop do not generally support Indic script.

Inputting Indic text
Specific keyboard layouts can be enabled in System Preferences, in the International pane. Switching among enabled keyboard layouts is done through the input menu in the upper right corner of the screen. The input menu appears as an icon indicating the current input method or keyboard layout — often a flag identified with the country, language, or script. Specific instructions are available from the "Help" menu (search for "Writing text in other languages").

Mac OS 10.4 system software comes with two installable Keyboard input options for Tamil: Murasu Anjal and Tamilnet 99. One needs to do the following steps to activate them:

i) Open "international" located within System Preferences and select "language". Select the "edit list", select "Tamil" from the list of languages shown and click OK.

ii) Select "input menu" to see a list of keyboard options available. Select "Anjal" and "Tamilnet99" keyboards under Murasu Anjal Tamil and Click OK.

iii) Anjal and Tamilnet99 keyboard icons appear immediately in the list of keyboards to select under the country flag in the top menu bar.

An alternative way to activate the keyboard(s) for Devanagari (Hindi etc.):

i) Open "International" located within System Preferences and select the "Input Menu" tab. (ii) Check the option for "Devanagari" and/or "Devanagari - QWERTY". (iii) Check the "Show input menu in menu bar" option at the bottom of the "International" panel. Close the panel, and the new keyboard(s) should be available for selection when you click on the menu bar icon (upper right corner).

SIL distributes a freeware Ukelele that allows anyone to design their own input keyboard for Mac OS X. For Telugu input method using ukelele two types of keyboard layouts PraSankar has been developed by navataramgam team to encourage their readers to post comments in Telugu.

GNOME
Supports: Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Tibetan

Viewing Indic text
You do not need to do anything to enable viewing of Indic text in GNOME 2.8 or later. Older versions may have support for some, but not all Indic scripts. Ensure you have appropriate Unicode fonts for each script you wish to view or edit.

Some web browsers may require you to enable Pango rendering to view Indic text properly.
 * For Epiphany, Pango rendering can be enabled in GConf. Press Alt+F2 to bring up the Run Application dialog, then enter  and click Run. The Configuration Editor window will appear. In the left pane, unfold   →   and click the   section. In the right pane, check the box next to the   option, then restart Epiphany.
 * Firefox 3 can render Indic text out-of-the-box. When using older versions of Mozilla or Firefox, you can enable Pango rendering by opening xterm and typing  or  . After this, all future sessions of Mozilla or Firefox will have Indic language support.
 * This will work only on Firefox compiled with --enable-pango.
 * The easiest way to check whether --enable-pango was used in your copy of Firefox is to type about:buildconfig in the address bar and to look for the string (--enable-pango).
 * For Ubuntu 6.06, this support has been turned off due to speed issues. To enable support, you must type  .  Future sessions do not remember this setting, so it must be repeated.
 * For Ubuntu 7.10 and above, this support can be enabled just by installing the relevant language support packs.
 * For instance, to support Kannada display, the following is sufficient:
 * Similarly, to support Tamil display, the following is sufficient:
 * And to support Telugu display, the following is sufficient:
 * For SUSE 10.1 you have to add the  to your .profile to make the effect permanent.
 * Go to your home directory, then edit the .profile file -it is a hidden file.
 * Scroll down to the last line of the file and add: export MOZ_ENABLE_PANGO=1
 * Save the .profile file. Restart for the effect to take place
 * Go to your home directory, then edit the .profile file -it is a hidden file.
 * Scroll down to the last line of the file and add: export MOZ_ENABLE_PANGO=1
 * Save the .profile file. Restart for the effect to take place

Inputting Indic text

 * Go to System → Preferences → Keyboard.
 * Select the "Layouts" tab.
 * Press "Add", then select the keyboard for the language or script you wish to use from the "Available Layouts" frame and then press "Add".
 * Press "Close" to discard the dialogue box.
 * Right click on the main menu on your desktop and select "Add to Panel…".
 * Select "Keyboard Indicator" and click "Add".
 * Position the keyboard indicator on your menu bar and click it to switch between keyboard layouts.

Using SCIM

Another option is to use SCIM. To enable it,
 * Install Hindi font support,
 * Then enable SCIM, using System → Personal → Input Method from the menu, and use Hindi phonetic support.

For more check (on Fedora) http://www.ruturaj.net/fedora-6-hindi-support-scim on Fedora, or (on Debian/Ubuntu) http://dev.sampada.net/Baraha_like_Input_on_Linux

KDE
Supports: Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu.

Viewing Indic text
You do not need to do anything to enable viewing of Indic text. Ensure you have appropriate Unicode fonts for each script you wish to view or edit.

Inputting Indic text

 * In the System Settings, go to Input Devices, Keyboard
 * In the tab Layout, enable Configure layouts
 * Click on Add Layout
 * Choose 'India' in Layout and the language you want in Variant
 * Click on OK
 * Now, you will have an icon for the Keyboard Layout in your system tray, in which you can choose the layout you want

Debian (and derivatives like Ubuntu)
Supports: Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi (including the variants for Punjabi), Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu, Tibetan.

Viewing Indic text
Enter as root: apt-get install ttf-indic-fonts and when the installation is complete restart the X server.

Restarting X Server in Debian
1. Go to a Virtual Terminal, say Ctrl (anything from F1 to F6). You will see a console. Login with your user credentials. 2. Then enter the following commands as root or sudo /etc/init.d/ kdm|gdm3|xdm stop /etc/init.d/ kdm|gdm3|xdm restart

The package name for the TrueType font of Thai is ttf-thai-tlwg

For viewing Tibetan script Enter as root: apt-get install ttf-tmuni ttf-dzongkha

For Mozilla and Firefox, see the comments above under "gnome". Rendering should work correctly "out of the box" as of Debian-4.0 (etch).

Inputting Indic text
SCIM supports text input in Indic languages including phonetic layout. SCIM should be working by default in recent distributions. More instructions on using and configuring SCIM can be found on help.ubuntu.com

Fedora
Supports: Bengali, Devanagari, Gujarati, Gurmukhi (including the variants for Punjabi), Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu among others.

Installing Indic fonts
For example, to install Kannada fonts, Simply enter as root on the console and type in the command:

yum install fonts-Kannada

This will download the Kannada fonts from the repositories and install it.

Similarly, for Hindi, say, enter as root on the console and type in the command: yum install fonts-Hindi

Keyboard support
Start the Add/Remove software applet. For example in KDE, say, navigate to System and then Add/Remove software. In the applet window, select Languages on the list box to your left hand side. In the right hand side list box, select the Indian languages of interest to you.

For example, to have Kannada key board support, check the box for Kannada Support. Similarly, for Hindi support, say, check the box for Hindi Support.

It has been observed that for Kannada, Fedora not only puts in Kannada keyboard support, but also provides transliteration support and also the keyboard support for KGP (Kannada Ganaka Parishad) keyboards. With this feature, users can directly type in Kannada words in Roman script to be transliterated to Kannada text in the application of your choice. For example into your browser, text editor, document editor, email client etc. Users can also use native Kannada keyboards, KGP based or otherwise to type in Kannada texts directly.

Arch Linux
Supports: Bengali (including the variants for Assamese), Gujarati, Gurmukhi (including variants for Punjabi), Devanagari (for Hindi and Sanskrit), Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Tamil, Telugu.

To install Indic fonts: pacman -S ttf-indic-otf

To enter Indic text in GNOME/KDE, follow the instructions in the respective sections above.

Gentoo
Supports: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu,

Installing Indic fonts
emerge lohit-fonts

Note: The lohit-fonts package was earlier named media-fonts/fonts-indic.

The mozilla-*-bin products shipped by gentoo are directly taken from mozilla's ftp servers and aren't built with pango support. Unless you notice a problem with this you need to build your own copy with the "moznopango" USE flag disabled: USE="-moznopango" (notice the minus sign, which in this case results in a double negation). Firefox 3 will be shipping with pango enabled by default.

Installing Tibetan fonts
The fonts above do not include Tibetan scripts used in WikiQueer, additional package needs to be emerged for those: emerge Tibetan-machine-font

Inputting Indic text
emerge -av scim-tables scim-m17n

Study the USE flags and the LINGUAS flags and set them accordingly depending on your desktop environment and language support needed. The following needs to be set whenever you login (append it to your .xinitrc or .xsession).

export XMODIFIERS=@im=SCIM   #case matters for this variable! export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim export QT_IM_MODULE=scim

Mozilla apps and precompiled software such as acroread might not play well with scim (C++). In such cases, make use of scim-bridge (C - avoiding C++ ABI issues). emerge scim-bridge and startup Firefox as: % GTK_IM_MODULE=scim-bridge Firefox

You might have to start the scim daemon manually. (Add it your session's startup)

scim -d

SCIM is a unified frontend for currently available input method libraries.

FreeBSD
Supports: Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu.

Installing Indic fonts
cd /usr/ports/x11-fonts/fonts-indic && make install clean

The binary package of Firefox (when you do pkg_add -r Firefox) might give the same problems as in Gentoo's bin package (needs confirmation)

cd /usr/ports/x11-fonts/fonts-te && make install clean

The above port is for Telugu Pothana2000 Fonts.

Inputting Indic text
See Gentoo's section above.

NetBSD, DragonFlyBSD, pkgsrc
Similar to FreeBSD

cd /usr/pkgsrc/fonts/lohit-fonts && make install clean

Unicode OpenType fonts

 * This section lists OpenType fonts, supported by Microsoft Windows and most Linux distributions. For AAT fonts (required for the Apple Macintosh), see the Mac OS X section above.

If you have followed the instructions for your computer system as mentioned above and you still cannot view Indic text properly, you may need to install a Unicode font:


 * Bengali : SolaimanLipi
 * Burmese : Padauk 2.6, Myanmar3, Parabaik
 * Devanagari : National Institute Of Social Defence BBC Hindi, Sanskrit 2003
 * Gujarati : Padma
 * Gurmukhi : AnmolUni, Saab
 * Kannada : Mallige, Kedage
 * Khmer : KhmerOS
 * Lao : Lao Script's free Saysettha OT
 * Malayalam : Aruna malayalam
 * Oriya : Utkal, Aprant Odia, Samyak or RaghuOriya
 * Sinhala : LKLUG, Malathi, KaputaUnicode, KandyUnicode
 * Tamil : Akshar Unicode
 * Telugu : Akshar Unicode
 * Thai : ???
 * Tibetan : Tibetan Machine Uni or Tibetan Machine Uni font (direct download),  Jomolhari
 * Urdu : Nafees Nastaleeq

The governmental Department of Information Technology (India) has provided Unicode Indic fonts for four of the Indic scripts used in India (several versions for Devanagari, one version for each of Kannada, Malayalam and Tamil).

WAZU JAPAN's Gallery of Unicode Fonts is an excellent resource for all Indic scripts.

Other information

 * Indic Script Drupal Module: Indic Script Drupal Module
 * Unicode Indic Editor A Tcl/Tk-based portable WYSIWYG transliteration editor.
 * Enabling Kannada at the Kannada WikiQueer
 * Punjabi Computing Resource Centre - Resources
 * Fedora Core 3 release notes, with instructions for enabling Pango rendering in Mozilla.
 * Microsoft BhashaIndia Article - How to enable Indic Language Support at OS level?
 * Homepage of Indlinux
 * Information provided on Marathi WikiQueer about Enabling Devanagari Fonts
 * paahijen - Applications in Indian Languages
 * Malayalam Computing Portal - Howtos and other information on using malayalam in computers
 * Free Online Indic Transliteration in all Indian Languages and to image conversion Bengali - Hindi - Kannada - Malayalam - Oriya - Punjabi - Tamil - Gujarati - Punjabi/Gurumukhi & Telugu

Fonts

 * Nombreux liens vers polices de caractères indiens
 * Bangla Unicode fonts and typing system project
 * Information at THDL about Tibetan Fonts & Unicode
 * National Library of Bhutan - Information about Dzongkha Fonts, Unicode & Keyboard

Online transliteration/input

 * 398-type-Oriya-in-ilit Guide to typing in Oriya (Odia) using Microsoft ILIT
 * xlit editor is good and very easy to use transliteration system to use for writing in Indian language
 * Google Indic Transliteration can be used to type in Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu etc. It even has scriptlets to make it easy.
 * QuillPad, a tool for transliterating into native scripts
 * Girgit Online Indic to Indic Transliteration of Webpages Bengali, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Oriya, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu, Gujarati, English
 * Uninagari: Multi-script Indic typewriter
 * Online Indic Keyboard Input: Uses indic_web_input package from entrans
 * Varamozhi: Standalone editor, online keyboard and IME for Malayalam using Mozhi scheme. Free and copylefted under GPL.
 * w3Tamil Web keyboard helps to type Tamil Unicode characters on computers which do not have a keyboard for typing the Tamil alphabet. It based on Tamil99 Keyboard Layout.
 * Tamil Typing: Tamil Typing
 * Online writing of Devanagari using English keyboard. Website also supports Tamil, Telegu, Malayalam, Kannada, Gujarati, Oriya, Bengali and Punjabi. See Devanagari transliteration for help as to which letters correspond with which Devanagari characters.
 * nepaliunicode Online / offline nepali unicode transliteration tool

Browser plugins

 * Ekya: Indic Transliteration Bookmarklets let you type anywhere on the web.
 * IndicIME firefox extension Firefox extension to type in Indian Languages on the web.

Cross-platform

 * Avro Keyboard Unicode-compliant Bangla typing software for Windows, Linux and Ubuntu. Supports a variety of typing methods, including phonetic.
 * Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool Windows-only desktop IME and cross-platform web bookmarklets to type in বাংলা (Bengali), ગુજરાતી (Gujarati), हिन्दी (Hindi), ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada), മലയാളം (Malayalam), मराठी (Marathi), ଓଡ଼ିଆ (Oriya), ਪੰਜਾਬੀ (Punjabi), தமிழ் (Tamil) and తెలుగు (Telugu) using free-form transliteration. Also includes a visual keyboard.

Windows-only

 * Azhagi transliteration tool tool which helps the user to create and edit contents in several Indian languages including Tamil, Hindi, Sanskrit,  Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam,  Marathi, Konkani,  Gujarati,  Bengali,  Punjabi,  Oriya and  Assamese without having to know typing in these languages.


 * To write Devanagari or Gujarati Script application by Dayashankar Joshi
 * Lipikaar: SMS-style input method for typing 16 Indian languages
 * Tamil keyboard Type in Tamil in any Windows application
 * e-Kalappai 3.0 Open-source GPL Tamil Keyboard Manager
 * Indinator Indic language transliterator Free online tool (does not work), a Windows-only download version is available as well.
 * Nepali Unicode by Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya for Nepali
 * Google Indic Language Input Tool Desktop IME to type in বাংলা (Bengali), ગુજરાતી (Gujarati), हिन्दी (Hindi), ಕನ್ನಡ (Kannada), മലയാളം (Malayalam), मराठी (Marathi),नेपाली (Nepali), ଓଡ଼ିଆ (Oriya), ਪੰਜਾਬੀ (Punjabi), संस्कृतम् (Sanskrit), தமிழ் (Tamil), తెలుగు (Telugu) and اردو(Urdu). Favoured method is learning predictive transliteration from English, but a visual keyboard is also supported. It also supports user defined macros and user defined schemes.

Possibly defunct

 * Romanized Nepali Unicode Keyboard developed by OOPSLite Technologies


 * Pada multilingual software supports Indian languages.

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