Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool Blog

Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool Graduates from Beta

2010-07-30T14:20:00Z

It gives us great pleasure to announce that the Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool is out of beta and is now a full-fledged release. We thank all of you for the valuable feedback you have provided us to help improve the features, quality and performance of the product. Please download the latest version of ILIT for your language: Bengali Gujarati Hindi Kannada Malayalam Marathi Oriya Punjabi Tamil Telugu Keep the feedback flowing. Thanks! Rahul....(read more)

Support for Gujarati, Marathi, Oriya and Punjabi added

2010-03-03T09:07:00Z

We are happy to announce that the Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool (ILIT) is now available for Gujarati, Marathi, Oriya and Punjabi. Gujarati, Marathi and Punjabi versions of the tool are available for XP, Vista and Windows 7 operating systems. Oriya is available for Vista and Windows 7. In addition to quality and performance improvements, we have also added support for Indian language punctuation and emoticons. You can now use danda (।), double danda (॥) and abbreviation symbol (॰) in the...(read more)

Add Indic Language Input to Your Website for Free

2010-02-15T07:15:00Z

We're happy to announce that beginning today, for the benefit of website owners and bloggers, it is possible (and extremely easy) to embed the Web version of Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool on your own website or blog. This facilitates easy search, form-filling and discussions in your language on your site by anyone who visits it, without requiring them to install anything. We offer two modes in which you may enable Indic Language Input on your website: the Opt-out mode and the Opt-in mode...(read more)

Rich Text Input Support for More Browsers

2010-01-22T07:31:00Z

When we first released the Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool Beta, the Web version had full support (i.e. plain text as well as rich text input fields) for Microsoft Internet Explorer and partial support (i.e. plain text only) for Mozilla Firefox, Safari, Google Chrome and Opera. We have now added Rich Text Input support for Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Google Chrome , thereby making them fully supported browsers. Opera is still partially supported, so that only plain text input fields can be...(read more)

Language Switching

2010-01-18T06:11:00Z

You may often find the need to intersperse English words with Indic Language text or otherwise quickly switch languages momentarily in an application (such as if you want to save a document you've been working on with an English filename). In the Desktop version of Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool, this is made easy by the keyboard shortcuts for switching languages. Unless you have specifically changed this setting via the Control Panel, the left Alt+Shift (left Alt is the Alt key to the left...(read more)

Capitalization Based Hinting

2009-12-17T08:25:00Z

Quick Summary Apart from easy-to-use free form transliteration, Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool accommodates experienced users who wish to be more specific by using capital letters. We also expect that with time, as new users get more proficient, they will find use for this feature, as it will help them more accurately transliterate with minimal spelling revisions. In short, it allows users to enter a capital letter to specify a preference for a long vowel (e.g. bA for बा in Hindi or kE for க...(read more)

Welcome

2009-12-16T11:01:00Z

নমস্কার! नमस्ते! ನಮಸ್ಕಾರ! സ്വാഗതം! வணக்கம்! నమస్కారము! Welcome to the Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool Blog. We intend this blog to be a place where we share information regarding the Microsoft Indic Language Input Tool . The posts on this blog will be written by people on the team that developed this product. We welcome you to provide feedback/suggestions in the comments section of this blog. We developed this tool because we felt that for many languages (Indic Languages among them), entering...(read more)