Madhyam is a Devanagari

Devanagari

Devanagari |deva]]" and "nāgarī" ), also called Nagari , is an abugida alphabet of India and Nepal...

 word processor

Word processor

A word processor is a computer application used for the production of any sort of printable material....

 that complies with the InScript

InScript

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 Devanagari Text Input Standard authenticated by the Government of India

Government of India

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, the Unicode Consortium

Unicode Consortium

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 and Bureau of Indian Standards

Bureau of Indian Standards

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. It allows typing text in Indian languages, i.e. Hindi

Hindi

Standard Hindi, or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi, also known as Manak Hindi , High Hindi, Nagari Hindi, and Literary Hindi, is a standardized and sanskritized register of the Hindustani language derived from the Khariboli dialect of Delhi...

, Marathi

Marathi language

Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of western and central India. It is the official language of the state of Maharashtra. There are over 68 million fluent speakers worldwide. Marathi has the fourth largest number of native speakers in India and is the fifteenth most...

, Sanskrit

Sanskrit

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, Nepali

Nepali language

Nepali or Nepalese is a language in the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family.It is the official language and de facto lingua franca of Nepal and is also spoken in Bhutan, parts of India and parts of Myanmar...

 and Konkani

Konkani language

KonkaniKonkani is a name given to a group of several cognate dialects spoken along the narrow strip of land called Konkan, on the west coast of India. This is, however, somewhat an over-generalisation. Geographically, Konkan is defined roughly as the area between the river Damanganga to the north...

.

Developed by Balendu Sharma Dadhich, it can be used for creating, opening, saving and modifying text files and taking print-outs. The software also allows sending email

Email

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 and surfing Hindi

Hindi

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 websites. Apart from Inscript (sometimes called 'Phonetic') keyboard, it also supports traditional Remington keyboard layout.

The latest version of Madhyam does not support Unicode

Unicode

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 and RTF

Rich Text Format

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like full formatting, but future versions of Madhyam might support them. The software has been created with the sole purpose of promoting use of Hindi and other Indian languages in the world of computing.

Also notable is the OpenOffice Hindi project, which aims on translating the open source suite into Hindi.

External links

• Madhyam: Free Devanagari Hindi word Processor
• Developer's Website
• Download Madhyam
• Romanized Nepali Unicode Keyboard developed by OOPSLite Technologies