How to accept strings in Kannada(Indian language)

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I need the text box and the rich text box in windows forms application to accept strings in Kannada(Indian language) and I'm not able to find any options in the properties.. please advice..I'm using Visual C# 2010 express.. thanks..

P.S.: I'm a newbie trying to learn C# through a project.

Posted 13-Sep-14 21:06pm

Tejas Shastri

Updated 13-Sep-14 21:14pm

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You don't see Kannada text and see English only because you are not writing anything in Kannada. Find out where you do it and sort out this problem first.

Kannada is supported by default on nearly all modern systems. You don't need anything special. And .NET is totally based on Unicode, so, Kannada text can be uses exactly in the same way as English text.

Only Kannada is not supported by each and every font. To see what font supports what, use the application "Character Map" (run charmap.exe), which comes will all Windows installations. Choose "Character Set" Unicode, "Group By" Unicode Subrange, and, in the "Group By" window, select "Kannada". Number of fonts support Kannada and English, and, say, "Arial Unicode MS" supports many scripts; it does not look the best but might be good enough for many purposes.

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Posted 14-Sep-14 3:42am

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov

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OriginalGriff · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-13T21:18:00

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Try setting the Font Property - the language is irrelevant as neither TextBox nor RichTextBox do language checking.

Posted 13-Sep-14 21:18pm

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Tejas Shastri 14-Sep-14 3:21am

when the font is sent to 'Lohit kannada'(its a kannada font), the sample still shows in English.

OriginalGriff 14-Sep-14 3:44am

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