Sunday, August 2, 2009

Hindi Keyboard is Back (Beta)... but 'Easy' will have to wait...

Thanks to KennyTM, we are back in business again... and its even simpler... no more need for mobile substrate. All you have to do is

1. Download the following file Hindi or Punjabi
2. Unzip it
3. Move the 8 .keyboard files in following folder
/System/Library/Frameworks/UIKit.framework/
(you can use SSH or iphonebrowser).
4. Then turn the Thai keyboard on in settings and you are good to go.

Note: You will not be able to use the real Thai keyboard by apple. So if you use the Thai keyboard frequently replace the 'Thai' part in keyboard names with any other keyboard in default OS. This problem will be resolved once ikeyex 3.0 is out!!

To remove the keyboard, just delete those 8 files from the system.

There are a few limitations that we already know of... such as
1. Popups and shiftedPopups are not supported.
2. Due to a font problem, some texts may not be shown properly.
3. Text traits (Colors, images and fonts) are not supported (yet)... which means 'easy hindi keyboard' will have to wait.

Other than that it seems to run fine...