മൈക്രോസോഫ്റ്റ് വിൻഡോസിൽ മലയാളം കോൺഫിഗർ ചെയ്യുന്നത് (Configuring Malayalam on Windows)

Installing Malayalam Unicode font on Windows

1. 1. Clik "Start Menu" and select "Control Panel"
2. 2. Choose "Regional Language Options" as follows
a)If you are using the "Category View" of control panel, following steps are for you


1. Date, Time, Language and Regional Options on Control Panel (Category View)




2. Regional and Language Options (Category View)
b) Or you can choose it easily from the "Classic View" of control panel as below



1. Regional and Language Options on Control Panel (Classic View)
3. 3. Choose Languages Tab
4. 4. Check the check box Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages (including Thai) as below


5. 5. Click here to download "Anjali Old Lipi" font
6. 6. Copy it to "C:\Windows:\Fonts"

Note: If you are using Microsoft Internet Explorer alone for browsing Malayalam, the above steps from 1 to 4 are not important. The steps 1 to 4 is for the Windows XP SP2 users and it may differ for later versions of Windows

Configuring Malayalam for Internet Explorer

1. 1. Right click on the "Internet Explorer" icon on the desktop and choose "Properties"



Note: You can also select Internet Options from "Control Panel"-->"Internet Options". Vista users can follow that.

2. 2. Click on the "Font" button on the "Appearance" section on the "General" tab of the "Internet Options" dialog



3. 3. Select "Malayalam" from "Language script" combo box
4. 4. Choose "AnjaliOldLipi" on the "Webpage font" list box
5. 5. Click "OK" on "Fonts" dialog and "Internet Options"

Note: Please note that you can configure any language to Internet Explorer as above. All you need to know which font is to be set as default font. This help is prepared using Internet Explorer 7, but it is similar in Internet Explorer 6 also. Previous versions prior to IE6 will not support Malayalam

Configuring Malayalam for Firefox 2.0

1. 1. Click on "Options" from Tools menu on Firefox
2. 2. Select on the "Content" tab and set the "Default Font" as "Anjali Old Lipi"


3. 3. Click on "Advanced" button. You will get a window as below



4. 4. Choose "Malayalam" in the "Fonts for" dropdown box
5. 5. Set "Propotional" font to "Sans Serif" and set other fonts to "Anjali Old Lipi"
6. 6. Check "Allow pages to choose their...." checkbox
7. 7. Set "Default Character Encoding" to "UTF8"
8. 8. Click "OK". You have completed configuring Malayalam on FF2

മേയ് ദിനാശംസകൾ

From: കിരൺ ചന്ദ് പാലക്കാട്ടിരി
Reply To: ചന്ദൂസ്‌ഗ്രൂപ്പ്@ജിമെയിൽ.കോം
Contact Type: Friendly Talk
Comments:
എല്ലാ മലയാളികൾക്കും വിശ്വസ്പന്ദനത്തിന്റെ ഹൃദയം നിറഞ്ഞ മേയ് ദിനാശംസകൾ.

Akshara Indic Developer Beta 2 Update 1 Released

From: Kiran Chand Palakkattiri
Reply To: chandoosgroup@gmail.com
Contact Type: Friendly Talk
Comments:
Akshara Indic Script Generator Beta 2 Update 1 is released. It does not have any added features, but two important updates like "ഞ്ച=ncha" and the default focus to the typing control

For downloads. please visit http://akshara.indic.googlepages.com/downloads

Please note that the application version is not changed, and the new downloads of 0.0.10.1 will have the minor updates ready with

Regards,
--Kiran Chand Palakkattiri--

അക്ഷര ഇൻഡിക് ഡെവലപ്പർ ബീറ്റ 2

അക്ഷര ഇൻഡിക് ഡെവലപ്പർ ബീറ്റ 2 (മൈനർ ബിൽഡ് 0.0.0.10) ഞാനിന്ന് നിങ്ങൾക്കായി സമർപ്പിക്കുന്നു. ഡൌൺലോഡ് ചെയ്യാനുള്ള ലിങ്ക് ഇവിടെ കൊടുത്തിട്ടുണ്ട്. ഉപയോഗിച്ചുനോക്കി അഭിപ്രായം പറയുമല്ലോ അല്ലേ?

Hey, It works fine, buddy

From: Kiran Chand Palakkattiri
Reply To: kiran.chand@live.com
Contact Type: Friendly Talk
Comments:
Its being reported that the message centre was failing in notifying the developer during a pre beta release build of 0.0.0.10.

The source code is fine and it works perfectly in all the machines where I tested!

Thank god, it is not an issue any more!

Akshara fails in contacting developer

From: Kiran Chand Palakkattiri
Reply To: chandoosgroup@gmail.com
Contact Type: Bug Report
Comments:
Yes!

My friends have reported that Askahra 0.0.0.10 fails to send emails to the developer sometimes

Will look in to that seriously, and fix issues if any before 0.0.0.10 beta release!

Thanks
--Kiran Chand--

Installation Requirements for Akshara Indic Developer Beta

Akshara Indic, by default, does not have any setup and it does not use Windows Registry for any of its operations. It is developed by assuming that you are using Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and .Net 2.0 is installed in your machine. The complete list of requirements is as follows

• Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or Later


• Microsoft .Net 2.0 Environment


• Microsoft Internet Explorer


• Unicode 5.1.0 Compliant Malayalam Font (AnjaliOldLipi Recommended)

If you are not able to view the unicode text rendered by the application, make sure that you have Unicode 5.1.0 Compliant Malayalam font and it is configured properly with internet explorer.