Sarala Ergonomic Keyboards - Telugu

Release 2.2, February 14, 2014

Installation Instructions for Windows 7 and Windows 8

1. Download

The official site for Sarala is: www.medhajananam.org/sarala.
You can also search for 'Sarala Telugu Keyboard' on the internet and find several other sites where Sarala is available for download.
Download the latest .zip file.

2. Install

Unzip the files into any folder on your computer (Example: C:\Sarala).
In that folder, open the SaralaTelugu-2.2\Install folder.
Run the InstallSarala-Telugu (InstallSarala-Telugu.exe) file by double clicking it.
Follow prompts.
Give a few seconds, after which you will see a pop-up box with the message:
"Sarala Ergonomic Keyboards - Telugu has been successfully installed.".

3. Start Using

Open any application you like to type the Telugu text Such as Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Notepad, Adobe Pagemaker, etc. ... any application that you want to type into.
Switch to Telugu and English back and forth as needed.
Press ALT+SHIFT. The keyboard now changes to Sarala Layout.
Press ALT+SHIFT again to change the keyboard back to English (QWERTY), after you are done with typing in Telugu.
You can toggle between Telugu and English (QWERTY) any number of times by pressing ALT+SHIFT.
If ALT+SHIFT does not work (because you have a different configuration settings), use CTRL+SHIFT for switching to Telugu and back to English (QWERTY).
You can also switch between languages by the clicking on a small icon on the taskbar that says 'EN'. When you click on the 'EN', you will see options to switch to Telugu.
All applications may not be properly supporting Unicode. In case you have difficulty in typing in Sarala, in any application, first type into a Unicode Editor (One of the best and free editors is BablePad, available at: www.babelstone.co.uk/Software/BabelPad.html ) and then copy/paste into your application.