Hi;

I just posted a new online web page that may be beneficial to people
studying Pali and people with Pali (and international) web sites.

emsTyper shows how to support transliteration on web pages.

In particular, it allows you to type Romanized Pali Velthius
(including the PTS character used for the .m) without having to
install a keyboard driver. The default font is Times Ext Roman but it
should work on all newer computers - even if you don't have this font.

It is Unicode and it could be handy for typing Pali text to enter into
Search boxes, typing up email messages where you need a couple of Pali
words, etc. Since it is a web page, it Pastes well - you don't get all
those extra blank lines.

For search, you just type in the Pali word or phrase and then drag and
drop it into the search box on your browser.

Beginners might like it. It is very intuitive and low-tech.

People with Pali web sites might like it. You can download the web
page and the free javascript. Any web techie knows that programming
transliteration for compatibility with Internet Explorer is not a
trivial task! With the source code provided, it would be easy to add
Pali transliteration to any web site. You could also add other
languages used with Pali (like Sinhalese).

Anybody who needs to type up a little Pali when they are away from
their computer (ie there is no Pali keyboard installed - like at the
library) could use it.

The other language using transliteration on the web page is French.
This shows how easy it is to support any language using the
javascript. It also shows how easy it is to mix languages and
character sets. (It's also handy for people who need to type French on
English language keyboards!).

Other nice things - Since it is javascript, you do *not* need to stay
online to use the web page. Since you can download the web page and
the javascript, you do *not* even need to go online to use the web
page in your browser.

I need some help testing it on different browsers. emsTyper has only
been tested on Firefox 2 and Internet Explorer 7 (both on XP).

If you think that it would be beneficial, it would be nice if you
could post replies with subject lines like 'emsTyper 1.1 works on
Safari on OS X' so that everybody can quickly see if there are any
compatibility issues that still need to be resolved.

You can read the little blog post and get access to emsTyper at the
Language and Technology blog at:
http://emsjuwel.com/kitqc2blog/?p=67

There is also a lot of information about the advantages of
transliteration in the category on the blog called Transliteration.

thank you!

palitechguy