IME (keyboard input) for Amharic/Tigrinya in Win XP? Thread poster: Jan Sundström
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Hi all,
I'm helping a translator to set up an XP machine for Amharic/Tigrinya.
I understand that XP doesn't support input of these scripts natively, so I need to download a separate IME (keyboad input tool). Harry Bornemann wrote a... See more Hi all,
I'm helping a translator to set up an XP machine for Amharic/Tigrinya.
I understand that XP doesn't support input of these scripts natively, so I need to download a separate IME (keyboad input tool). Harry Bornemann wrote about this earlier:
http://www.proz.com/forum/cat_tools_technical_help/128813-cat_tool_for_amharic.html#1066990
I've found a few links, but I have no clue which one to use:
http://members.multimania.co.uk/geezunicode/
http://www.ethiozena.net/info/faq.html#FreeKeyboards
http://www.tavultesoft.com/keyman/downloads/keyboards/details.php?KeyboardID=461
For those of you working in Amharic/Tigrinya, which ones do you prefer?
Quite a few postings seem to recommend Tavultesoft Keyman, but as I understand, this is a 30 day trial. Have any of you tried it, or are the freeware offerings just as good?
Also, I wonder if most of these IMEs are compatible with Open Office? I found a post indicating that there might be issues:
http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01015.html
As a last workaround, I thought about suggesting an upgrade to Vista instead. IIUC, there is native support for both languages, which eliminates the need for an IME alltogether?
http://www.hanselman.com/blog/CustomCulturesWinFormsFontEmbeddingCodeWithEthiopianAmharicForVistaAndXP.aspx
Thanks a lot for any feedback! ▲ Collapse
| | | | Stephen Franke
United States
Local time: 03:43
English to Arabic
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| Ask the practitioners at http://www.ethiotrans.com/ | Jan 12, 2010 |
Greetings.
Perhaps one way to get helpful advice on that technical matter of workable keyboard input settings is to ask the practitioners in those two languages at EthioTrans, website URL: < http://www.ethiotrans.com/ >.
EthioTrans is a language services firm based in San Diego, California. Some of their registered translators who work in those languages have likely encountered and r... See more Greetings.
Perhaps one way to get helpful advice on that technical matter of workable keyboard input settings is to ask the practitioners in those two languages at EthioTrans, website URL: < http://www.ethiotrans.com/ >.
EthioTrans is a language services firm based in San Diego, California. Some of their registered translators who work in those languages have likely encountered and resolved the same technicality.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Stephen H. Franke
English - Arabic,
Kurdish, and Persian
San Pedro, California ▲ Collapse
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Hi Jan,
I would use Power Geez or Visual Geez because they are installed in every internetcafe in Addis. I also tried Tavultesoft Keyman (because I could not find anything else for Nuer) and it worked, but it was very cumbersome for my Amharic friends to use because they are accustomed to the keyboard layout and key combinations of Power Geez (which can be emulated by Visual Geez), and for the Nuer translator it was even stranger.
BTW, although Power Geez is no freeware... See more Hi Jan,
I would use Power Geez or Visual Geez because they are installed in every internetcafe in Addis. I also tried Tavultesoft Keyman (because I could not find anything else for Nuer) and it worked, but it was very cumbersome for my Amharic friends to use because they are accustomed to the keyboard layout and key combinations of Power Geez (which can be emulated by Visual Geez), and for the Nuer translator it was even stranger.
BTW, although Power Geez is no freeware, you may distribute the fonts from it freely, because you need them to view Word documents in Amharic.
Actually I have not done or managed any CAT tool translations from or into Amharic yet, because there were too many other problems which would be more urgent or important to solve.
At the moment I am in Mexico for some months to check out which problems I will have here.
Good speed,
Harry ▲ Collapse
| | | | Ethiotrans
Local time: 03:43
Member (2004)
Amharic to English
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| We have the solution | Jan 13, 2010 |
Well at Ethiotrans.com we face this every day. Amharic has more than 250 letters and IME is too slow and time consuming but the software we have will use keyboard combination (Phonetic) and east to learn. Our software supports both UNICODE and NONUnicode Others software support only one may be UNICODE or NON-UNICODE. For more info please send your question to [email protected]
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