Hindi Indic IME 1 Version 5.0

Contents

Introduction

System Requirements

Release Notes

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.

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System Requirement

Office XP on Windows 2000

Office XP on Windows XP

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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.

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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.

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Installation

Run Hindi Setup.exe and follow the instructions in the setup program.
Reboot your system.

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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.

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How to Use Indic IME:

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

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Keyboards

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.

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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.

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