how to type in hindi

[Swapnil Bhartiya]

On 02/01/2012 05:15 PM, Abhishek Dixit wrote:
> 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?

Just wrote and published an article for you. Hope this will help you. 
These are step-by-step instructions. A video will be uploaded soon.

http://www.muktware.com/articles/3268/how-type-hindi-ubuntu

Swapnil Bhartiya

>
>> 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.
>