The Technical Nitty-Gritty: Telugu on Win XP/2k3
(Couldn't get easier than this, trust me on this. Easier to get it out of the way first before going on to the other funky stuff)
- Go to Start > Control Panel > Regional Language and Settings.
- Select the second tab.
- Tick the checkmark for "Install Complex Script Support (Including Thai)
- Pop the CD in. Get the 10MB install.
- Go to the next tab. Select the language bar. Add Telugu to the list.
- Take a deep breath. You're done!
The good folk at Bhasha India seem to have some screenshots up on the process. Bear in mind, though, that Telugu (as also Kannada, Gurmukhi, Bengali, Oriya, Malayalam, Gujarati) is (are) currently unsupported in Win2k. Also bear in mind that the default Telugu keyboard is Inscript; it is NOT RTS-compatible.
Our next post, which will be in a couple of hours' time, will deal with these two things, getting Telugu up at an OS-level in win2k, and then later extending that to give native RTS-compatibility. Yup, found a hack, folks.
posted by The Cydonian @ 8:23 am
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HoweverIf you, like me, work with university issued computers and suffer the frustration of having all the installed scripts and fonts deleted everytime you just reboot the PC, you need to download a transliteration software. Easier to use than learning the keyboard layout on your Win XP box.
No. The letters that you type in telugu and the corresponding - if you can call them that - letter on the qwerty keyboard are very very different. The transliteration software though, will help you type the phonetic representation in English to return the Telugu lipi.
OTOH, if you're uber-cool (and slightly - albeit self-professed - fanatical about the subject like the MM) you already have the Telugu character layout printed either in
1. Your memory
2. In big font size all over your walls
3. or simpler, Your keyboard*
*Special order required. Ask the MM how he got his.
Just to clarify, 'phonetic' == 'RTS'. Now read my post once again. :-)
What he said.
Oversimplifying to RTS would throw most n00bs like me off, so I though it warranted an explanation.
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