using punjabi and hindi fonts on websites and in documents

SatNaam

 

You may have discovered to your dismay that your hindi or punjabi MS Word document can't just be cut and pasted into your website or blog or email

Or vice-versa - you cant cut and paste a hindi or punjabi website article into your MS Word document - it just appears as little rectangles.

 

[To get MS Word to display it you have to install 'Supplemental language support' in Windows XP.
   Start -> Control Panel -> Regional & Language Options -> Languages -> Install files for complex script and right-to-left languages (including Thai)

You will need the installation disc.]

However, here is the simplest way we have found to get around the problem by using WORDPAD (or use openoffice.org) instead of MS WORD.

 

Because we are using the fonts from websites, we need to use unicode type of fonts.  The ones you have by default on your PC in your c:\windows\fonts should be

Raavi - for Punjabi and Mangal - for Hindi.   

So in summary to save some text from a punjabi/hindi website is

 

a) check that the Raavi / Mangal font is installed in c:\windows\fonts 
 
b) copy the punjabi/hindi text from the website.
 
c) open Wordpad change the font to Raavi for Punjabi or Mangal for Hindi

 

d) paste into a wordpad file 
 
e) save as rtf format.  RTF format will keep all your formatting eg font sizes, bold etc.

 

If you want to send an email in Punjabi/Hindi , you just use Wordpad and the Raavi/Mangal font.  Then cut and paste it into your email

 

If you dont want to use Wordpad, you can do it online.  Here is a great editor which you can type in roman eg sat sri akal, and it converts it into Punjabi Raavi font.  You can do the same for Hindi too.  http://quillpad.com/editor.html

 

thanks

Harjit