Wednesday, September 14, 2011

English to punjabi font..i need a site in which when i type a english word it will be chnged to punjabi font.?

i want a site in which when i type a english word it will be changed to punjabi font..coz i dont really know how to write punjabi..can anyone help me?English to punjabi font..i need a site in which when i type a english word it will be chnged to punjabi font.?
If you don't know how to write in Punjabi then its almost useless for you to use such a site. But anyway since you've asked for it, here's one : http://www.iit.edu/~laksvij/language/pun…



WARNING: It can give horribly incorrect spellings in Gurmukhi script even when you write an apparently proper punjabi word in roman script. You should know at least some Gurmukhi if you plan to use this site.



I'll give you an example, if you want to write the word 'maya' (meaning illusion) in Gurmukhi and you type 'maya' in the field it returns an absolutely incorrect spelling in gurmukhi: ?? which is HORRIBLY wrong. The correct spelling is: ???? . But you wouldn't know what is correct since you can't write in Gurmukhi script.



I'm not saying that such a site is totally useless. It can be pretty useful but you MUST know how to write the language in order to use it properly.



Also this particular site I gave you lacks some important 'specials' as mentioned there. You can see it only has the Bindi (dot) . It does NOT have the Addhak nor does it have the Tippi. Let's say if you want to write the word 'Punjabi' itself. It is: ?????? , it has the Tippi over the first letter. But using this website you cannot put the Tippi! To substitute you have to put the bindi and write like: ?????? but that's incorrect because Gurmukhi has rules when to use tippi and when to use bindi.



What you can do is to install a virtual Gurmukhi keyboard so you can switch between english and punjabi writing language and also get the missing diacritics marks (tippi and adhak) but even for that you got to know how to write in Gurmukhi to use it.



Anyway forget about Gurmukhi-keyboard , but even using such a website if you don't know for eg. what Ts and what Ds to use (Diff. types of T and D letters in punjabi) , it might yield you a very incorrect spelling and a nonsensical phrase as well.



So all in all first learn some Gurmukhi in order to be able to use such a website converting roman text to gurmukhi text. Otherwise its totally useless really. Because as I've explained, a lot of mistakes will creep in if you just directly convert it without being able to read/write in Gurmukhi and correct it. And it'll yield a funny , wrong , misspelled , nonsensical phrase.



Once you learn some Gurmukhi you can start using this website and also install the gurmukhi keyboard thru' language settings control panel .

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