Enable Hindi Support For Your Computer

Windows NT / Windows 2000 / Windows XP

- Unicode support is built in and you should have no problems.

Enabling support for Indian languages (Indic) on your computer

Windows XP

Windows XP has inbuilt Indian languages features. If you enable these features, you will be able to view the Hindi pages much better. You must have at least 10 MB of free hard disk space and the Installation Disk of Windows ready, before starting. Please close any open programs.

1. Go to Control Panel (from the “Start” button)

2. Go to Regional and Language Options

3. Click the “Languages” tab

4. Check (click) the line marked “Install files for complex scripts and right to left languages (including Thai)”

When you check this line, a new window will appear, which will give a list of languages that will be installed. This list will include ‘Indic’. It will ‘warn’ you that you need at least 10 MB of hard disk space. Click OK to close this window. Then click OK on the Regional and Languages Options window. You will be asked to restart your computer.

You should be able to view the Hindi text on this site now.

Windows 2000

Enable support for Indian languages on your computer. Windows 2000 has inbuilt Indian languages features. If you enable these features, you will be able to view the Hindi pages much better.

1. Go to Settings (Start Button)

2. Go to Control Panel

3. Go to Regional Options

4. In "Language settings for the system" (in the first "General" tab), select Indic.

5. Click Ok

You should be able to view the Hindi text on this site now.

Windows 95 / Windows 98 / Windows Me

- Download and install the following font, download to your Windows/Fonts folder: Mangal

- Win Me should work now, but for Win98/95, you must also download the Takhti editor, unzip it, run it and close it. It should auto detect the correct files needed to display the unicode font.

- Rebooting the computer is advised, but not required. Refreshing the webpage in the browser should be enough.