Comments on: A guide to Indian languages on Mac OS X

By: ganesh.r

ganesh.r — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 12:32:51 +0000

I like to buy a guide. Where should I go in chennai

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By: Arsad

Arsad — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:59:32 +0000

Is this applicable to bengali also ?

By: Arsad

Arsad — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 22:59:12 +0000

Is it applicable to Bengali also?

By: Adding Kannada support to Mac OS X | iMac Users | Indian Mac Users

Adding Kannada support to Mac OS X | iMac Users | Indian Mac Users — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:48:53 +0000

[...] mentioned earlier, Mac OS X (10.5) comes with support for Devnagri (which technically enables Hindi, Marathi; and [...]

By: deepakg

deepakg — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:30:26 +0000

It is! There is also - http://www.google.com/transliterate/indic. But there are issues:

a.) You need to type inside a textbox in a browser and then paste the text into the application you are working with. WIth native support in the OS, you can directly type into an application without switching context. Besides, quillpad needs to add instructions for Mac in their FAQ section.

b.) It doesn't help if the OS doesn't support the language you want to work with. Both Quillpad and Google Indic Transliteration tool show null glyphs for scripts other than Devnagri, Gujarati, Gurmukhi and Tamil.

By: AJ

AJ — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:12:18 +0000

On a similar note, you can write in Indian languages using English keyboard….
http://quillpad.in/hindi/

Quite amazing I think...