Ok one more solution and i think open office is out of the picture till we can figure out a solution Unicode hindi works well in gnumeric so if anyone is having problems using hindi unicode in open office use abiword for documents and gnumeric for spredsheets ram Hi some more support the inscript keyboard layout can be found at 1. <a href="http://javadesktop.org/articles/InputMethod/indiclayout.html" target="_blank"> http://javadesktop.org/articles/InputMethod/indiclayout.html</a> and 2. <a href="http://tdil.mit.gov.in/isciichart.pdf" target="_blank">http://tdil.mit.gov.in/isciichart.pdf</a> <div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 17, 2008 11:45 PM, Ramnarayan. K <<a href="mailto:ramnarayan.k@gmail.com" target="_blank"> ramnarayan.k@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">Hi Ok so no responses but have been able to figure somethings out 1. The hindi typing works well in Abiword (which also leads me to believe that there is also a bug in Open Office) <div> हिन्दी is pasted with one edit directly from abiword - so thats one problem less (till open office problem gets solved) </div> ram <div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 4, 2008 11:14 PM, <a href="mailto:ramnarayan.k@gmail.com" target="_blank">ramnarayan.k@gmail.com</a> <<a href="mailto:ramnarayan.k@gmail.com" target="_blank">ramnarayan.k@gmail.com </a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> Hi I have been able to setup the Devanagari / hindi packages and even use them to type. However there are two unresolved issues 1. In open office - am unable to type full words - after typing one letter the next letter does not get typed unless a space is inserted . this is a pain and makes the whole typing business unusable. Funnily the typing works well in gedit, and even within thunderbird. So is it a problem with Open Office or with the way the hindi script is setup. (Does such a problem exist in other languages as well) This issue was raised earlier also but am not sure it was resolved. this is text typed in Thunderbird in the Hindi Script *िहन्दी* this is how it appears in open office *ह ि  न  ् द  ी* So any suggestions , advice. 2. Am searching for the Unicode Hindi Keyboard Layout Tried making one myself - but feel that some characters are missing. Have searched the various links posted earlier but nowhere can i find a visual layout - i.e the hindi script mapped to a qwerty keyboard. Any place i can find it ??? *ready made* Q q  W w  E e  R r  T t  Y y औ ौ  ऐ  ै  आ ा  ई ी   ऊ ू   भ ब 3. The question - why is the rendering of the half akshar not happening Hindi gets written as  *िहन्दी* but say when we remove the spaces within the open office word it appears properly (it does not appear here as it does in the open office document. But the half akshar does get rendered properly. Finally what is the formal acceptability of these not rendered half akshar's - some of the websites have these but say when using the star dict English hindi dictionary all he half akshar's are rendered properly. The following is text copied from star dict here again in open office the half akshar gets rendered properly but pasting it here it appears with the half अक्षर symbol हिन्दी  "'Hindi' हमारे देश की राजभाषा है." any suggestions, advice thanks ram </blockquote></div> </blockquote></div>