How to enable Indic Language Support at OS level?
For Windows 98, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 7
Operating Systems.
Enabling Indic support on
Windows 98
If your Operating system is Windows
98, Windows ME, Windows 2000, then to get the support for Punjabi UNICODE font
the following steps need to be performed:
Step 1: Download and Install the
Internet Explorer version 6.0 from Microsoft website.
Step 2: Download the Punjabi
UNICODE font and save it into the fonts folder inside the Windows folder. (It
is recommended that you restart the system for registering the font properly)
Note: Unzip the zip file.
Step 3: Download the Latest Dll
file for UNICODE support. Save the downloaded .exe file - double click on the
file - give a temporary folder address - the program will extract a few files
into the folder - of these 'usp.zip' is the one you will need - leave the other
files as it is.
unzip usp.zip using Winzip program-
it will give two files viz: usp10.dll and readme.txt and save usp10.dll into
the Internet Explorer folder (where iexplore.exe resides) inside the Program
Files Folder (For Example: C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer)
Note: 1: Make sure that no instance
of Internet Explorer (browser) is running.
2: Unzip the zip file.
Enabling Indic support on
Windows XP
1st Step: Enable Indic
Functionality in the OS
Go to Start => Control Panel
=> Date, Time, Language and Regional Options.
Click on Regional and Language
Options.
Click on the Languages tab. Under
the heading 'Supplemental language support' check the item 'Install files for Complex Script and
right-to-left languages (including Thai)'.
Allow the OS to install necessary
files from Windows XP disc.
2nd Step: What to Select as User
Locale, Location and System Locale?
Click on the 'Regional Options' tab
to set User Locale and Location.
Under the heading 'Standards and
format' select Hindi or any other language as your User Locale from the
drop-down box. This selection will determine settings for numbers, currencies,
times and dates as well as sorting rules for the language. Under the heading
'Location', select a country where you are physically located such as
3rd Step: Setting-up the Indian
Language Keyboards or Input Locales
In Regional and Language Options
panel, click on the Languages Tab.
Once Languages tab is selected
click on the 'Details' tab to install different input locales or Keyboards.
Click on the 'Add' button to add a keyboard for a particular language. In the
drop-down box select Hindi or Marathi as the Input Language. A corresponding
keyboard layout/IME will be automatically selected.Click OK to close the dialog
boxes.
Enabling Indic support on
Windows 2000
1st Step: Enable Indic
Functionality in the OS.
Go to Start -> Settings ->
Regional Options -> General (Tab) In the Language Settings for the System,
enable Indic. Copy necessary files from the Windows 2000 disc.
Reboot the computer after files
have been copied.
2nd Step: What to Select as User
Locale and System Locale?
User Locale: Once Indic language
support has been enabled in the OS, we can select any one of the available
Indic languages as User Locale. For example we can select Hindi as the User
Locale.
User Locale in turns determines the
various settings/formats for numbers, currencies, date, and time. However it is
not necessary to select an Indic language as User Locale. Instead, we can
select English (US) as the User Locale, if the situation demands.
System Locale:
This Setting is invoked by clicking
on the Set Default command button at the bottom of the Regional Options. By
design, no Indian language can be selected as the System Locale. English (US)
or (
3rd Step: Setting-up the Indian
Language Keyboards or Input Locales
In the 2nd step if you select an
Indic language as User Locale, Windows will automatically add a keyboard for
that language.Otherwise to add a keyboard for a particular language,
Select the Input Locales tab.
Click on the Add button located
under Input Language display Box. This will take you to Add Input Locale dialog
Box as shown below.
Select desired language in the
Input Locale drop-down box.
Enabling Indic support on
Windows 7
