ವಿಕಿಪೀಡಿಯ:Kannada Support/Simple

Windows 2000, Windows ME, Windows 98

Although officially there is no support for the above Operating Systems, some users have reported that using IE6 upgrades Kannada Support for the Browser. Visit this page or make enquiries on the mailing lists/boards listed below

The following is some additional information from the Unicode site regarding Windows 2000:

For Windows 2000, getting additional languages installed is as follows:

Start > Settings > Control Panel > Regional Options.

In the General tab, set all the languages you may want to display, the more you set, the more you will be able to process multilingual data through all your applications, including your browser. This adds fonts as well as system support for these languages.

Full fonts with Office 2000

Bold text=== Windows XP/ Server 2003 Family ===

Prerequisites

• Go to Control Panel->Regional Settings->Languages->Install support for complex scripts including Thai
• Click Apply/OK
• You will require the Windows XP CD
• RebootItalic text

Display

Out of the Box support for viewing pages in Kannada thanks to the Arial Unicode MS font.

Fonts

Besides the Arial Unicode MS font, Windows XP also comes with Tunga which gets installed if you follow the steps detailed in the next section (Input). You can also install any font from here.

Input

Since October 2007, an automatic kannada input system has been enabled on the Kannada Wikipedia. This system automatically converts letters typed in english into their kannada pronunciation equivalents. The rules of such transliteration is described in this page