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First thing first. You require a Devnagari true type font "xdvng.ttf " installed on your machine. It is designed by Arun Gupta and made available "free" by Sandeep Sibal at his "jtrans" site to Download. There are more fonts made available to the public. Langscape's Devpooja, made available "free" by Ninad Pradhan at his site to Download. The competition for internet pie looks good. Harsh Kumar has made available his Shusha Devnagari font "free". You can Download it at Abhay Joshi's homepage. Abhay has given detailed instructions on its installation.
The future looks good for writers in Indian languages on the internet. I have received yet another free true type font and an editing utility to transform itrans format into Devnagari script. I tried this utility. It is not yet ready for prime-time release. It works fine, though. Please give it a try.
Download the font. Unzip the file. The resulting ttf file would be placed in a derectory where other fonts reside. Restart the computer. Download the utility itranslt.exe that allows you to type in Avinash Chopde's itrans method. Unzip it. You will get an executable file. Open it in windows by run command. You will see a double window editor. Type in the first in itrans method. Your typing is, then, instantly converted to Devnagari script. Save the Devnagari version as a text file. Import such a file to your word processor. You are in the business of writing your favorite language, provided it is written in Devnagari. This utility and the font is made available to you by Omkarananda Ashram Himalayas, India. You can send a note of thanks to Swami Vishvarupananda.The key to success is in the availability of such public domain fonts. If anybody has a font designing software, they can bring about revolution on the internet. My suggestion to these creative individuals is that they should just give those fonts away free to the public. If some kind soul wants to seek help in standardization of keyboard mapping that can be beneficial to all, I have few ideas of my own.
Hindi/Urdu conflict arises from the fact the Hindu society turned against Hindustani, generally called Urdu. It is a language much robust and has more literature than Hindi. If Hindus stopped short of mutillating Urdu by replacing all instances of Farsi and Arabic vocabulary with concocted, far fetched, artificial Sanskrit words, we may all be speaking Hindustani/Urdu than Hindi.
One cannot wipe out a language or a culture associated with that language. One cannot change the color of one's skin, albeit, by putting layers of cosmetics or exposing one's body to the hot sun. One cannot change or alter the history by negating it. If anyone of you have not forgotten your Urdu script can read more stuff. Here is where you go to do just that.
Some require you to have their proprietary fonts which can be downloaded from their sites. The others, Urdu material can be accessed without any fonts download. Thank god for that.Just yell for any additional help you may need. Glad to help you out in your quest about Hindi/Hindustani problems