how to type in hindi

[Abhishek Dixit]

On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 8:45 PM, Swapnil Bhartiya
<swapnil.bhartiya at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 02/01/2012 03:48 PM, Abhishek Dixit wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 1, 2012 at 7:43 PM, সাজেদুর রহিম জোয়ারদার
>> <toshazed at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear Abhishek
>>>
>>> 2012/2/1 Abhishek Dixit<abhidixit87 at gmail.com>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I have only English US keyboard.I am using the same to type in Hindi and
>>>> where exactly are these system keyboard preferences?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 1. You have to switch between Hindi and English keyboard layouts while
>>> typing.
>>>
>>> 2. Go to the Unity Global Menu on the left of the desktop screen and
>>> there
>>> you will get System Settings Application Icon. Click and in the new
>>> window
>>> you will have the Keyboard Layouts Application.
>>>
>> I am not able to understand what you suggested.I am using only one
>> keyboard that has English US layout.
>> It is a laptop I have used sanskrit 99 font also on the same machine
>> and I was able to type in Devnagri script without doing any of the
>> extra things which you are mentioning but things are not working with
>> Lohit Hindi font.
>
>
> I will suggest using iBus. We run a Hindi site Kalkion.com and all the
> content is composed using Ubuntu/iBus.
I installed ibus
> From Software Center install iBus and also m17 engine for Hindi.
installed m17 also
> Then
> configure Hindi.
Not clear how to do this?

> Now you can easily switch between Hindi/English just by
> hitting Ctrl+Space key.
Opened libreoffice and pressed Ctrl+space with Lohit Hindi font
selected but there was no change in the text typed.