Most of us Nepali dream of expressing our views and words in Nepali Language i.e. Devanagari script both online and offline. And the age-old practice of using Preeti font (generically speaking!) still persist, while such traditional Nepali fonts are supported only on the desktop applications and not on the Internet or website. Say, you can’t write your Facebook status in Preeti font or Himali fontasy. In this tutorial, we will guide you how to type in Nepali Unicode easily on your PC (offline) or the web.
Nepali Unicode vs Nepali Fonts
Although there are many Unicode converters (Preeti to Nepali Unicode converters!) out in web, they only allow users to type and convert on their website – meaning we are bound to stay on those converter websites or tools and then switch between the programs to copy and paste the conversion to our desired website or App.
But the technology has been improving and offering us new and innovative services day by day, and here the topic we are discussing today is all about Google Input Tools which allows us how to type Nepali easily and everywhere (NO NEED TO VISIT ANY UNICODE CONVERTER SITE AND DO COPY PASTE), since this app automatically converts every word we type into Nepali.
Here are few steps to help you install Google Input Tools (earlier was called Google Transliteration IME) so that one can type in Nepali Unicode seamlessly in any software applications on your computer.
STEP : Go to http://google.com/inputtools/windows
To download Google Input tools you need to visit the above given URL (Link). In that link you can see following page:
After you get there check the Choose your languages box on the right side. Tick Nepali language and also don’t forget to tick in I agree to Google…. and click download. If you don’t got what I am trying to explain then Take a look at the image below:
STEP 2: Download Google Input Tools & Install
In the above step we reached up-to download button. After We clicked on Download button, a dialogue box will prompt asking you to download that file or not. Now Click on Download or Save file (whatever you get in your browser).
After Downloading the File, click on that file and run it. It will ask for administrative privileges, put your password of administrator user of your PC (if you have) and click on RUN. After that a dialogue box like below will appear.
After few moments of the previous connecting to internet dialogue box show-up, the real download will start now. Google fetch the download file and install automatically. After the download and installation of the Google input tools up-to here following box will show up.
STEP 3: Enabling Google Input Tools
After your installation, now check the right side of your task bar. There you can see ENG text. Click on that and a option will display to choose the language input method. Click on Google Input Tools (Nepali) as in the picture below (feeling smarter! you can easily switch between your language preferences in Windows/Google Input Tools by pressing Windows Key + Space bar together.)
As I said before, Click on नेपा NEPALI (Google Input Tools) and a small floating widget will appear on the bottom-right side of of your screen.
Now Start Typing anywhere in Nepali Unicode! The Google Input tool will convert your text instantly into Nepali. Here is the preview of typing and suggestion dialogue box that will appear after you start typing.
Up-to here, you know how to install and type Nepali using help of Google Input tools. And for those people who will definitely comment that you haven’t used a bit of nepali in this tutorial then here is my friend:
यो पोस्ट पढिदिनु भएकोमा म हार्दिक आभारी छु ।
Also few notes: To change back to English language click on म text on the floating widget and choose English, and if you can’t find correct translate, you can use virtual keyboard. You can click on KEYBOARD ICON (picture) on that floating widget to display keyboard where you can find every letter and symbols used in Nepali Language or Nepali Unicode script. Alternatively, if you are on the mobile device or find it difficult to type in Nepali Unicode, Google presents you Nepali translation as well, try it.
That’s all for today. Stay tuned for more tutorials.
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(The author of this article – @theNepale – have already featured this post on TECH.Net.NP as well.)
