Sarala Ergonomic Keyboards - Telugu
Release 2.2, February 14, 2014
Installation Instructions for Windows Vista
1. Download
- The official site for Sarala is: www.medhajananam.org/sarala.
- You can also search for 'Sarala Telugu Keyboard' on the internet and find several other sites where Sarala is available for download.
- Download the latest .zip file.
2. Install
- Unzip the files into any folder on your computer (Example: C:\Sarala).
- In that folder, open the SaralaTelugu-2.2\Install folder.
- Run the program InstallSarala-Telugu (InstallSarala-Telugu.exe) file by double clicking it.
- Follow prompts.
- Give a few seconds, after which you will see a pop-up box with the message:
"Sarala Ergonomic Keyboards - Telugu has been successfully installed.".
3. Activate
- Go to Control Panel.
- Go to 'Clock, Language and Region'.
- Click the 'Regional and Language Options'. A new dialog box opens.
- Click on the 'Keyboards and Languages' tab.
- Click the button 'Change Keyboards ...' . A new dialog box opens.
- Click the 'Add' button. A new dialog box opens.
- Scroll down till you see 'Telugu (India)'.
- Click the '+' box to the left of 'Telugu (India)'.
- Beneath 'Telugu (India)' you will see 'Keyboard'. Beneath 'Keyboard', you will see 'Telugu Sarala', among other options.
- Click the check box to the left of 'Telugu Sarala'.
- Click OK. The dialog box closes.
- The focus is now back at the dialog box titled 'Text Services and Input Languages'.
- Click the 'OK' button. The dialog box closes.
- The focus is now back at the dialog box titled 'Regional and Language Options.'
- Click the 'OK' button. The dialog box closes.
- You are now done installing 'Sarala' keyboard on your computer.
4. Start Using
- Open any application you like to type the Telugu text Such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Notepad, Adobe Pagemaker, etc. ... any application that you want to type into.
- Switch to Telugu and English back and forth as needed.
- Press ALT+SHIFT. The keyboard now changes to Sarala Layout.
- Press ALT+SHIFT again to change the keyboard back to English (QWERTY), after you are done with typing in Telugu.
- You can toggle between Telugu and English (QWERTY) any number of times by pressing ALT+SHIFT.
- If ALT+SHIFT does not work (because you have a different configuration settings), use CTRL+SHIFT for switching to Telugu and back to English (QWERTY).
- You can also switch between languages by the clicking on a small icon on the taskbar that says 'EN'. When you click on the 'EN', you will see options to switch to Telugu.
- All applications may not be properly supporting Unicode. In case you have difficulty in typing in Sarala, in any application, first type into a Unicode Editor (One of the best and free editors is BablePad, available at: www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelPad.html ) and then copy/paste into your application.
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