Re: NATLANG/Learning : Sanskrit
| From: | Nikhil Sinha <nsinha_in@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, August 16, 2003, 7:14 |
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>"Jean-François Colson" <bn130627@...> likis:
> And here is the Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary on CD-Rom -
Only
> $7.95 -
>
http://www.matchless-gifts.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=25&products_id
> =65&ad=sangoogle
>
> Does someone know how I can write in Sanskrit under Windows 98 with all
the
> (historic or modern) ligatures?
You cannot use Unicode for this. You have to use standard Devanagari fonts.
There are three types of Devanagari fonts.
1. Unicode (Arial Unicode MS) - In this , Devanagari letters cannot be
typed.
2. Standard fonts - These are the most used fonts, but there is no
correspondence between Roman charcters on the keyboard and the anagari
charcters on the screen. For example, typing 'n' on keyboard won't give you
the Devanagari letter 'n'.
3. Phonetic fonts- There is a correspondence between Roman and Devanagari.
Typing 'n' would give you Devanagari for n. So, this is better for us,
though it is not widely used.
Nikhil
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