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If your version of Windows does not
support the language you wish to use, there are a number of alternatives
you may explore.
Tavutesoft Keyman. The Keyman
application is similar to Parawin in that it allows the user to create
new keyboard layouts and edit keyboard layouts in Windows. The product
is free for personal use or personal educational use. The product does
not include keyboard layouts or fonts necessary to type in a language.
There are numerous keyboard layouts for many languages that you can
download from various web sites at http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/downloads/keyboards/. You must also download the appropriate
fonts needed for the language you wish to use.
This product does not support right-to-left text entry as required in
Arabic, Hebrew and other complex scripting languages.
More information: http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/.
Price: free for personal use.
Keyboard Layout Manager. This program allows you to create and modify Microsoft keyboard layout files. It works with Windows 95, Windows 95-OSR/2, Windows 98 and Windows ME operating systems.
It also works with Windows NT 4.0, Windows XP, and Windows 2000 operating systems. It works both as a standalone application and Control Panel item (Keyboard Layout Manager icon). You can restore your layouts to the Microsoft defaults by uninstalling this software.
The program does not modify Microsoft layout files directly. It overwrites them with generated files.
This product does not support
right-to-left text entry as required in Arabic, Hebrew and other complex
scripting languages. More
information: http://www.klm.freeservers.com/
Microsoft Keyboard Editor (Windows
2000/XP). The Microsoft Keyboard Editor allows the user to create
new keyboard layouts and edit existing layouts in Windows 2000 and XP.
You can download this product for free at the following web page: http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/msklc.mspx
Microsoft Global IME (Input Method
Editor). Microsoft offers a number of IME's (Input Method Editors)
that allow the user to type in complex scripting languages, such as
Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc. You can get more information about these
products and download them for free at the following web sites:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=803A623E-C311-4591-
A593-B0E24A6F38E8&displaylang=en
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/downloads/recommended/ime/default.mspx
For information on how to enable
right-to-left text entry in Word 2002 in Windows ME/98/NT, see this
information article from Microsoft: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;311019
Fonts
Many of the keyboard layout solutions
above do not include the fonts necessary to type in a language. You can
either purchase fonts separately or download freeware or shareware fonts
from a variety of Internet sources. Some of the more extensive font
collections are listed below:
Yamada Language Center. http://babel.uoregon.edu/index.html
FontSeek. http://www.fontseek.com/fonts.html
Freelang.net. http://www.freelang.net/fonts/
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