Microsoft updates Indic Language Tool
By siliconindia   |   Tuesday, 22 December 2009, 15:43 IST   |    27 Comments
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Microsoft updates Indic Language Tool
Bangalore: Even though Microsoft made its Indic Language tool public, it is still too boring for the average users to begin, reports Medianama. Installing regional supplemental language support is necessary to set up the application, and it takes up 10MB or more of available disk space. It requires various DLL (Dynamic Link Library) files to be installed from the original Windows CD. Finally, Bengali and Malayalam were loaded on the language bar of Preethi J of Medianama who tested them out on Word and notepad. After installing the Hindi language transliteration support for Firefox, which was simple enough drag and drop procedure, she attempted to try it out with a few search engines. The visual keyboard 'to assist with editing words that do not transliterate properly' was not visible. On Google search, the typed keywords are slightly hidden. The option to type in Hindi only appears in the search engine's main page and not for future searches - for example, after a search, if anyone wants to perform another search in Hindi, then he/she would have to hit the Hindi button on his/her browser again. Some words are still not recognised by the tools accurately and it avoids converting it into Hindi.

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