Comments on: Hindi font on Mac

By: Manoj

Manoj — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:48:30 +0000

thanks hope this will help me

By: Manoj

Manoj — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 18:45:58 +0000

is it possible to download virtual Hindi keypad, i mean typing by using mouse

By: MAHARAJABOY

MAHARAJABOY — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:16:34 +0000

some fonts override eachother when i open a web page. Is there anything to correct with font book or font folder ?

By: Anubhav Goyal

Anubhav Goyal — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 09:32:01 +0000

Simply view the site on Safari. Safari by default display hindi text. Hope this helps

By: amitosh

amitosh — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:23:19 +0000

1) Go to System Preferences
2) Click on International
3) Click on the Input tab and select Devanagari and/or Devanagari-QWERTY
4) Check the Show Input Menu in Menu Bar for easy switching

i have tried doing the same for hindi reading on mac..its still not coming..i dont want to type anything..i just want to read hindi material available on web..how would that be possible?plz help

By: Capt. Narendra

Capt. Narendra — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:22:52 +0000

Hi Shrey,
You can get it if you type (shift) p = फ on Devnagari – QWERTY.

Hope this helps.

By: Shrey

Shrey — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:02:14 +0000

So I successfully used the above technique (insert ‘F’ between letters) to get joint letters.

However, I can’t figure out how to type out फ (the hindi letter for F) unless I paste it directly from the character palette

Would prefer a solution for Devanagari-QWERTY.

Any help would be appreciated.

By: daniella vaclavik

daniella vaclavik — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:33:43 +0000

trying to type devanagari on word for mac. works perfect in text edit, but can’t find a font for word. any advice?
and
ठ tha is (shift-alt)t
ढ dha is (shift-alt)d
visarga ः (shift)h
ऋ r (alt)r
ऋृ longr (alt)r then (shift)r
r symbol for krsna ृ (shift)r कृ
उu (alt)u
ऊ longu (alt-shift)u
hope that helps…

By: राजगोपाल

राजगोपाल — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 05:25:21 +0000

Kelly, not sure if you got your answers. Since I didn’t see them in the posts, here it goes –
भ (bh) – shift b
घ (gh) – shift g
ध (dh) – shift d
ष (sh) – x
ण (other N) – shift n
कृ (r as in krishna) – shift r
उ (U as in Upanishad) – Alt U (don’t know second U)
: (visarg) – would colon (shift do?

Devanagari-QWERTY works good for most of the letters but haven’t figured out how to type ठ (Th) or ढ (Dh) yet. I don’t see these letters even in the Keyboard viewer. I can type those using just Devanagari layout but QWERTY layout is really easy for somebody like me who is new to Devanagari typing. Would appreciate if any body can help with this.

Regards,

Rajgopal

By: Madhavi

Madhavi — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:53:16 +0000

I had been wanting to experiment with hindi / devnagiri typing on my new MacBook Pro for quite some time now… and your post was extremely spot on…
In order to learn the different keyboard keys to type better, you need to check the box for ‘Keyboard Viewer’ which under the Input tab. Then, you can see a menu item called ‘Show Keyboard Viewer’ which then shows you a mini keyboard on the screen – thus helping you to type better and to figure out which keys are for what alphabet… in fact, you can even type out your stuff from that keyboard itself too…

Thanks for posting this information!