Telugu Typing Baraha

Baraha 7.0

Baraha - Indian Language Software

Baraha software supports Kannada, Konkani, Tulu, Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Nepali, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Gujarati, Punjabi, Bengali, Assamese and Oriya languages. Runs on Windows XP/Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8. Baraha software can be effectively used for... Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint presentations in Indian languages. Email, Chat, Blog, Twitter, Facebook, Website in Indian languages. Database development in Indian languages.

 

Features
Editors	Baraha - a standalone editor for editing, printing documents. BarahaPad - a standalone editor for editing Unicode documents. BarahaIME - type Indian language text in any application; compatible with MS Office and Open Office.
Fonts	Unicode fonts for Indian languages.
Keyboards	Phonetic keyboard - a user friendly keyboard for Indian languages; as easy as writing our names in English. Brhkbd Keyboard - a user friendly keyboard for Indian languages. Inscript Keyboard - a govt. of India standard for Indian languages.
Language learning	Useful for learning Indian scripts. Latin transliteration (ISO 15919, IAST) Translation & web search for Indian languages. Spell check to correct the documents. Braille script for sightless people.
Tools	Convert Indian language text between different scripts and the ISO standard. Sort Indian language text in ascending/descending order of the script. FontConvert - convert documents between Baraha and other 3rd party fonts.

 

About Baraha means "writing" in Kannada language. The first release of Baraha software was made on January 1998. This initial release was developed with an intention to provide a free, easy to use Kannada language software to enable even non-computer professionals to use Kannada in computers thereby promoting Kannada language in the cyber world. Today millions of people across the world are using Baraha for creating content in Indian languages. The biggest challenge for use of Indian languages is the keyboard. At present, usage of English language & English keyboard(QWERTY) in computers is inevitable. One has to use the English keyboard only to type Indian language text. There are many different keyboard layouts for typing Indian languages. Many such layouts are based on the earlier typewriter designs, which are not at all relevant for the intelligent computers. It is also very difficult and confusing for a common user, who spends most of the time using the English keyboard, to switch to one such keyboard for quickly typing an email in say Kannada or Hindi. Features   Baraha breaks the keyboard barrier for Indian languages by using a phonetic keyboard in which any Indian language word may be typed using the standard English keyboard. Baraha user doesn't feel any discomfort when he switches between typing Indian language text and English. In fact, writing in Baraha is as simple and easy as writing our names in English! Kannada and Hindi text such as cheluva kannaDa nADu, merA bhArat mahAn can be typed as shown. Many Indian language software were created based on True Type fonts (ANSI encoding) many years before Windows/Linux introduced them using Open Type fonts (Unicode encoding). Even today, majority of the Indian language content is being created using TrueType fonts and almost all Indian publications use ANSI based TrueType fonts for printing and online publications. Baraha breaks the barrier between ANSI and Unicode. Using Baraha, one can effortlessly convert text between ANSI and Unicode. For example, when a user on Windows 98 - which doesn't support Unicode, receives a Hindi email in Unicode, he can convert it to ANSI and read it. Baraha breaks the script barrier between different Indian languages. All the Indian scripts are derived from the Brahmi script, which is also the underlying concept in Baraha. Baraha uses a common code to represent all the Indian languages. So, it is possible to convert text from one script to another. For example, let's say a Malayalam user who understands Hindi language receives a Hindi email. If the user is not fluent in reading Devanagari script, then he can convert the email to Malayalam script itself and read it. One of the main objectives of Baraha is "portability of data". Baraha can export the data in various file formats such as ANSI text, Unicode text, RTF, HTML. User can convert documents to Unicode by a few clicks of mouse, which means the documents that are created in Baraha, stay relevant in the future and will never become obsolete. "Language is not just a means of communication. Instead, it is the only means that can save the culture of its people." Baraha was made a freeware in order to motivate Indians to communicate in their languages on computers. We believe that only an easy to use, free Indian language software can jump-start the extensive usage of Indian language on computers, which today is dominated by English. Baraha was a freeware from 1998 to 2010 for personal and commercial use, during which period, we added many languages and features to the program while constantly upgrading it to support the new operating systems. One feature Baraha still lacks today is Unicode fonts. In the future, we would like to add a few fonts for all the scripts supported by Baraha. Creating fonts requires a lot of time and resources and hence we have changed the licensing structure in order to generate some revenue. Starting from version 10.0, Baraha has become a paid software with new features and Unicode fonts. We request the regular users to support Baraha by buying the software.
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