[INDOLOGY] Unicode Devanagari on Mac

[Jonathan Silk]

Maybe indeed I'm missing something but the Asian Extended keyboard (made,
if I am not wrong, by Nobumi Iyanaga) works perfectly for diacritics, no
mess, no fuss.

Jonathan

On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 2:47 PM, Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh at umich.edu> wrote:

> David,
>
>      The old Easy Unicode keyboard-layout does work on my Mac that has the
> latest operating system and the latest MS Office 360.  Try reinstalling the
> keyboard file, if you have it.  If not, I can send it to you.  Best,
>
> Madhav
>
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2016 at 8:44 AM, David Mellins <dmellins at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Yes, This is true, but have you found a convenient way to enter the full
>> range  of diacritica for Romanized Sanskrit without having to resort to
>> Emoji/Latin/favorites inserts?
>>
>> This is not the worst thing in the world, but slower than the old Easy
>> Unicode or Dev Unicode keyboards.
>>
>> David
>>
>> Sent from my iPhone
>>
>> On Jul 15, 2016, at 8:37 AM, Dominik Wujastyk <wujastyk at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> I'm shocked.  I don't pay much attention to the Mac world, but I've been
>> typing Devanagari into everything on my computer for many years (Linux).  I
>> had no idea that this wasn't possible or easy on a Mac.  Wow.  And the Mac
>> used to be the byword for multilingual support.  I'm glad it's okay now, at
>> least.
>>
>> Dominik
>>
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>> Singhmar Chair in Classical Indian Society and Polity
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>>
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>>
>>
>> On 15 July 2016 at 12:58, Madhav Deshpande <mmdesh at umich.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Dear Indologists,
>>>
>>>      To my happy surprise, I found that with the combination of the
>>> latest version of Microsoft Office 360 for Mac and the latest Mac Operating
>>> System OS X El Capitan, it is now possible to directly enter Unicode
>>> Devanagari in a Word document with the Devanagari - QWERTY keyboard
>>> layout.  Previously, I had to enter Unicode Devanagari in something like
>>> TextEdit and then copy and paste into a Word document, but was not able to
>>> edit it in the Word document.  The new development of software has happily
>>> changed that situation.  Hope this information will be of use to some of
>>> you.  Best,
>>>
>>> Madhav Deshpande
>>>
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