In a cursory look, the Devanāgarī script appears different from other Indic scripts, such as Bengali-Assamese or Gurmukhi, but a closer examination reveals they are very similar except for angles and structural emphasis. It is written from left to right, has a strong preference for symmetrical rounded shapes within squared outlines, and is recognisable by a horizontal line, known as a शिरोरेखा śirorekhā, that runs along the top of full letters. Unlike the Latin alphabet, the script has no concept of letter case. The orthography of this script reflects the pronunciation of the language. The Devanāgari script, composed of 48 primary characters, including 14 vowels and 34 consonants, is the fourth most widely adopted writing system in the world, being used for over 120 languages. It was developed and in regular use by the 7th century CE and achieved its modern form by 1000 CE. It is one of the official scripts of the Republic of India and Nepal.
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Also simply called Nāgari ( Sanskrit: नागरि, Nāgari), it is a left-to-right abugida (a type of segmental writing system), based on the ancient Brāhmi script. Other than files, the tool also supports conversion of data in various databases like MS SQL, MySql and Oracle.Devanagari ( / ˌ d eɪ v ə ˈ n ɑː ɡ ər i/ DAY-və- NAH-gər-ee देवनागरी, IAST: Devanāgarī, Sanskrit pronunciation: ) is an Indic script used in the northern Indian subcontinent. It supports following file formats as input: - Text files (*.txt), Excel (*.xls and *.xlsx), Word (*.doc and *.docx), PowerPoint (*.ppt and *.pptx), CSV (*.csv), HTML (*.htm and *.html). It also enables user to transliterate text from English to Indian Languages and vice versa. C-DAC GIST Data Converter is integrated with ISM Basic for Conversion of Data from third party fonts (legacy data) to standard Unicode format.Support for popular script specific keyboards layouts like Typewriter.Easy Phonetic typing support for users comfortable with the English keyboard.On screen floating keyboard to help novice users in content creation and learning the keyboard.Allows typing of new UNICODE value of Rupee Symbol.Can be used for typing in web-browser to support applications such as e-mailing, chatting, searching, etc.Enables creation of Indian language content using Windows based applications.Supports UNICODE data and Open Type (OT) Fonts.Assamese, Bangla, Boro, Dogri, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri (Devanagari Script), Kashmiri (Perso Arabic Script), Konkani, Malayalam, Manipuri (Bengali Script), Manipuri (Meetei-Mayek Script), Marathi, Maithili, Nepali, Odia, Punjabi, Santali (Devanagari Script), Santali (OL-CHIKI Script), Sanskrit, Sindhi(Devanagari Script), Sindhi (Perso Arabic), Tamil, Telugu, Urdu. Enables typing with Indian languages viz.Pluggable architecture of ISM Basic ensures easy integration, upgrade and auto-update of various useful Indian language services and tools. One can select any languages to start typing in that particular language on any editor on all available windows platforms (32 bit and 64 bit both. ISM Basic supports UNICODE and Enhanced INSCRIPT keyboard layout.
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With the help of this tool users can type very easily official Indian languages which also includes Perso-arabic languages like Urdu, Sindhi, Kashmiri. ISM Basic has been developed to work with all Official Indian languages.
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This software consists of aesthetic Indian language fonts and tools that you require to start working with Indian Languages on computers. Using ISM Basic is the easiest way to get started with Indian languages on your personal computer. ISM Basic is latest addition to the popular family of ISM products from GIST Research Labs. ISM from C-DAC GIST is the acronym for Intelligent Script Manager.