I myself use this whenever I type in Devanagari or Bengali. It is really very simple to use, and I just checked - Kannada is also there ("Select a language" in the middle). It is really very simply to use and there is no downloading anything. Just type, copy, and paste.
https://www.lexilogos.com/keyboard/devanagari.htm
Best,
John
For my students I made a few help pages on how to type Kannada on Linux, Mac and and Windows machines:
http://lmu.zydenbos.net/kannada/kannada-osx.html
http://lmu.zydenbos.net/kannada/kannada-windows.html
http://lmu.zydenbos.net/kannada/linux/kannada-linux.html
I use the font Kedage for my Kannada work. A number of fonts can be found here: http://kannada.nd4.org/kannada-fonts
(Sorry for this very late response. I was out of station for a few weeks when the original query was sent to the list, and I saw it just now, while cleaning up my computer.)
Robert Zydenbos
On 14.03.20 13:40, Harry Spier via INDOLOGY wrote:Thank you to everyone who replied on and off line. The font is for a colleague who will be entering small amounts of text (bhajans) and will be having some helpers typing in from home. So are there on-line or dpwnloadable tools for typing in Kannada text (keyboards or online sites for text conversion etc.)
Thanks,
Harry Spier
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