Having problem viewing Assamese text on your computer?
This may be because you have no Assamese fonts installed in your system. Try installing some Assamese unicode fonts, then you will be able to view the assamese texts perfectly. You can download Assamese unicode fonts form the following links:
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Want to write in Assamese? Here is some options partaining to how to write in Assamese in windows XP,Vista,7
To be able to write in Assamese, you need to install any of the following Assamese Unicode writing Tool.
1. Avro Keyboard: Download and install avro keyboard. This tool is very helpful for novices to learn typing in Assamese. Download from Here. Another advantage with this software is that you can create your own keyboard layout arranging the keys in the position of your choice.
2. Baraha: Another great unicode typing tool for Indian Languages. Now the Free version of Baraha is not available. You can download an evaluation version of Baraha from their Website. Alternatively you can download the older version of Baraha software(Full/Registered) from Here.
3. Microsoft Indic Input: A tool from Microsoft for Assamese typing. You can type in phonetic or inscript as you wish using this tool. You can download this tool from BhashaIndia website.
Download the User Guide .
4. Puberun: Inscript typing tool by www.kuhipat.org. For more information and downloading the tool, visit kuhipat.org
There are also some other tools available which you may find useful for typing in assamese, but if you have not typed in assamese before, I reccomend you to try the above four solutions. There are also some online tools, where you can type and save for further use. Some of them are:
5. Puberun by kuhipat.org
6. Anvesha
How
to enable Assamese Writing in Linux Operating System:
(Instance
described here is Ubuntu v11.04)
1. You can install Assamese Language Pack
to enable Assamese as a desktop language.
Go to System> Administration > Language Support and install অসমীয়া
Go to System> Administration > Language Support and install অসমীয়া
2.
Install ibus (Intelligent Input Bus for
Linux / Unix OS) . To install follow these steps:
a.
Open terminal
b.
type this command
sudo apt-get install ibus
3.
Install ibus-m17n package by typing the
following command in the terminal window:
sudo apt-get install ibus-m17n
4.
Go to System> Administration >
Language Support and in the Language tab, select ibus in Keyboard input method
system.
5.
Now a keyboard symbol will appear in the
notification area of your system. Click on that icon and select Preference.
Alternatively
you can go to System>Preferences>Keyboard Input Method
6.
The ibus Preference menu will open.
Click on input Method tab. Then click on
Select an Input Method . Move to Assamese, the available keyboards will
appear(Assamese Phonetic, Assamese Inscript and Assamese-itrans). Select and
add all the three keyboards. Now you are ready to write in your own language.
7.
Open any text editor(Gedit | LibreOffice | OpenOffice) and click on the
keyboard on the notification area of your system to select input method. Select
any one the Assamese keyboards of your convenient. For some excercise, try
typing with the keyboards selecting one by one and select the most easiest one
for you. You will now be able to type in Assamese anywhere, in your Office
applications, text editors, and web applications like facebook or twitter.
Avro Keyboard is now available for Linux also. You can try the Avro phonetic version for Ubuntu and Linux Mint. It can be Downloaded from Omnicorn Lab Wesite. To Download Avro phonetic for Ubuntu v9.10, Click Here. For support in installation and using the application, go to Omnicorn Lab Forum.
Avro Keyboard is now available for Linux also. You can try the Avro phonetic version for Ubuntu and Linux Mint. It can be Downloaded from Omnicorn Lab Wesite. To Download Avro phonetic for Ubuntu v9.10, Click Here. For support in installation and using the application, go to Omnicorn Lab Forum.
If Assamese words are not correctly rendered in your Web browser, or if you are viewing very small text, then to fix the problem, the following videos will be helpful for you.
1. Assamese words are not properly rendered(courtesy: Banajit Pathak)
2. Seeing Very Small fonts in browser(courtesy: Banajit Pathak)