Sunday, February 27, 2022

best pāḷi keyboard input method for windows pc, by Ven. Ānandajoti


Ven. Ānandajoti recently updated his free keyboard input method, there are two of them, here:

https://www.ancient-buddhist-texts.net/download/index.htm

I'm using the newer, "long press method", it's amazing.
So easy to use, there's absolutely no excuse not to type out pāḷi words correctly from now on.

Before, using complicated control-alt combinations, it was tedious, easy to make mistakes, then you had to backspace and fix your mistake, etc. In your mind, each time you thought about typing a pāḷi diacritical, you had to consider, do I really want to spend at least 3 times as much energy (3 strokes instead of 1, much more time and brain power to coordinate hands) risk even way more time making mistakes, or just be lazy and hope people don't assume I'm ignorant or incompetent rather than just busy and don't like wasting time correcting typing  diacritical mistakes? 

Now, it's virtually impossible to make a mistake, it takes so little effort, literally just a few hundredths of a second of time to type out pāḷi letters like āĀūŪṭḷ correctly.

I've only been using it for a day, so far no conflicts with other programs on Windows 11 pc.


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