[INDOLOGY] Unicode Devanagari on Mac

[Madhav Deshpande]

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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>
> 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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