

In Today's fast pace world where English is considered dominant language and in case of India where most people know English typing on English QWERTY keypad, sometimes it becomes mandatory to type any content in the Kannada language such as letter, Application, Documents etc. Besides this, you can also edit your text as you wish with most frequent function keys given above window border.


One of the Unique thing about This Kannada typing tool is once you start typing in phonetically similar English words it will show a drop-down menu showing a list of words from which you can choose which words to select by using arrow keys once you highlight that word press space it will be typed. What it does is it can convert phonetically similar Kannada Words Typed in QWERTY English keyboard layout into Kannada Script. This blog explains the process of converting the text present in PageMaker into Kannada Unicode text.Kannada Typing Tool is a free tool which makes it easy to write content into the Kannada Language from English QWERTY keyboard. These are mostly present in the form of PageMaker files. There is still a large amount of text entered and stored with old non-Unicode font based encodings. All websites like Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, Wikisource, etc., want the text in Unicode only. Usage of Unicode for Kannada has become prominent only recently. Employing Unicode for all digitisation works of Kannada text solves this problem. Any text based operations like search, replace, sorting, spell-check, text-to-speech, etc., are not possible with this kind of text. The system does not understand these characters as Kannada characters. Non-Unicode truetype fonts like Nudi, Baraha, ShreeLipi, Akruti, etc., are some of the most popular fonts being used.

The text entered into these packages is actually stored as font glyph codes rather than character encodings. Kannada typesetting on computers has been most popular in the world of desktop publishing (DTP) people make use of specialised software packages to lay out the pages.Įven now, many people still use these packages for Kannada DTP work. People have been using computers for typing and printing Kannada text for more than 25 years. Kannada non-Unicode text when opened in Notepad
