How to make input process easier in regional language?

OK, of course, Gujarati rendered perfectly. And I did not specify the font, you can see it using the default font utilized by CodeProject for the default font of text messages. Anyway, if I can do it, you can do it too.

Now, let's see how to type it in a convenient way. Usually, you go to the Control Panel applet and choose "Region and Languages", then the tab "Keyboard and Languages", then the button "Change Keyboard", then the button "Add" (may vary depending on the system, I show it for Windows 7). Not to big surprise, I found "Gujarati (India)". Mind you, I am using standard Windows 7 of the locale "English (US)". Nothing specifically Indian in it.

Again, I naively assume, that if I can do it on my Windows installed as "English (US)", you can do it anyway.

Now, the problem is: the keyboard layout installed this way, may be convenient for one or another category of Gujarati speakers or not. I don't know, but I know that some important layouts are missing.

And now — drums! — the ultimate solution:

Download this application: Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator. Here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964665.aspx[^].

Run it. You will see the keyboard. On each key, put the characters you want. Use [Main Menu] -> Project -> Build DLL and Setup Package. It will create some MSI files and "setup.exe". Install it. Now, miracles happen: you will find fully installed alternative keyboard layout, with Gujarati or anything else. Go back to Control Panel (described above), define how layout are switched. You are done. As I say, the ultimate solution.

India is a wonderful country with ancient culture which I deeply respect and very many different cultures and languages; I am sorry that I've never been there.

But the most mysteries experience related to India is many Indian software developers, who keep asking me how to use one or another Indian language on there computers. They ask me again and again; and I always know how to do it. I already learned so many facts about many of the languages, unfortunately, still without understanding the languages themselves. But CodeProject members from India keep asking those questions. What's wrong?

—SA

Encoding encoding = Encoding.GetEncoding(737); //(DOS) Greek code page
byte[] codePageValues = System.IO.File.ReadAllBytes(@"greek.txt");

// Same content is now encoded as UTF-16
string unicodeValues = encoding.GetString(codePageValues);


Debug.Log(unicodeValues);

char euro = '\u0AE7';
string test = "અઆઇઈઉઊઋઍએઐઔકખગ";