Talapatram - Latest Release Version 2.1

Indian Languages Editing and Keyboard Layout Software

Free to Use and Open Source

Talapatram is an Indian Languages editing software with a provision to type in 11 of the Indian languages (+ English) with on-screen dynamic keyboard layouts.

It is like a virtual keyboard which overlays a virtual layout on your current English keyboard and lets you type in Bengali, English, Farsi, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Marathi, Punjabi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu OR in any combination of the above 12 languages.

Keyboard layouts that it uses are standard keyboard layouts specified by the ISO. Text typed can be saved as simple text files with UTF-8 encoding which can be ported to any platform and can be copied to and used in any other application (e.g., MS Word).

It is not a transliterator. It is a desktop application which lets you type directly in any combination of the above said 11 languages as people used to do using type-writing machines in olden days. Keyboard layouts in Talapatram are similar to the ones that used to be present on old type-writing machines, which are standard (like english keyboard). So, normal keyboard skills are sufficient to get used to the tool.

Operating Systems :Windows NT/XP/Vista

Development Languages :C++ - using MFCs.

Development Platforms :MS VS.net 2003, VS 2005 Pro.

Requirements:

Supplemental Language Support:

Supplemental Language Support should be ENABLED in windows which adds support for Indic and other complex script languages. See this settings page for full information on how to Enable it in Windows XP.

Unicode fonts:

• Microsoft's Windows XP/ Office XP/ Windows 2000 by default ship with Unicode fonts for almost all of the Indian Languages.

• See this page with text in Hindi which has been created using Talapatram. If you see contents of this page in your browser then Hindi Unicode fonts are installed on your machine!

• If you are in absence of unicode fonts for any particular language obtain them from http://www.alanwood.net/unicode/fonts.html (almost all of them can be obtained for free!)

• For further queries regarding fonts contact me.

Issues:

If there is any issue that you would like to report please go to "Issues" section on this website http://code.google.com/p/talapatram/issues/list and log a "New Issue".

Website:

http://www.funnotes.net/talapatram/

Developed By: Rama Aravind Vorray

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