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Overview
Goo;;;..;;;;;;;;;;gle Transliteration IME is an input method editor which
alllllllows users to enter text in one of the supported languages using a roman
keyboard. Users can type a word the way it sounds using Latin characters and
Google mmmTransliteration IME will convert the word to its native script. Note
that this is not the same as translation -- it is the sound of the words that is
converted from one alphabet to the other, not their meaning. Converted content
will always be in Unicode. For example, typing "hamesha" transliterates into
Hindi as:
andjjjkkk typing "salaam" transliterates into Persian as:
Google Transliteration IME is available for 19 different languages - Amharic,
Arabic, Bengali, Farsi (Persian), Greek, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam,
Mallllrathi, Nepali, Punjabi, Russian, Sanskrit, Serbian, Tamil, Telugu, Tigrinya
and Urdu.
Sample status window and the edit window for Hindi IME are shown below. For
simplicity, Hindi IME is used as an example at most places in this help page.

Installation

Install
To install, download (If you are on a 64-bit Windows, make sure you have
selected the 64-bit radio button in the download page) and run the installer and
follow the instructions on screen.

More than one language IME can be installed on the same client
machine.
Requirements are Windows 7/Vista/XP 32-bit/64-bit operating systems.
Only one instance of IME will be installed per machine but the
configuration is done for each user using IME.

Uninstall
To uninstall, follow these steps:
1. Click on the "Start" menu.
2. Select "Control Panel" and then go to "Add or Remove Programs".
3. In the program list, select the "Google <Language> Input", click on
"Change/Remove" button.

4. By default, "Retain my personal data with settings" option will be

checked, which will not clean your personal customizations like display
font, user correction cache etc., as part of uninstall. Uncheck the option, if
you want to clean all your personal settings information.
5. In the "Uninstall Google <Language> Input" dialog box, click "Yes".

Configuration
If you want to use IME with any application like notepad, you must first open the
application and then open our IME. IME can be opened by clicking on the
language bar on the desktop and then selecting the IME language icon or
through a shortcut key if it's already configured. To close IME, you can change
the language in language bar or try right clicking on the current application to
see whether it supports 'Close IME' popup menu option or by closing the current
application.
Displaying Language Bar

In desktop, right click on tool bar and select Toolbars -> Language bar

Enabling Language Bar

If the 'Language bar' option is not visible in 'Toolbars', then it needs to be
enabled through control panel:

Windows 7/Vista
1. Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Keyboard and
Languages tab
2. Click on Change keyboards... button to open Text services and input
languages dialog
3. Navigate to Language Bar tab
4. Enable the radio button Docked in the taskbar under Language Bar
section
5. Apply all settings and try to display language bar as mentioned in
previous section.
Windows XP
1. Go to Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options ->
Languages tab -> Text services and input languages (Details) ->
Advanced Tab
2. Make sure that under System configuration, option Turn off advanced
text services is NOT checked.
3. Go to Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options ->
Languages tab -> Text services and input languages (Details) ->
Settings Tab
4. Click Language Bar
5. Select Show the Language bar on the desktop. Click OK.
6. If you are installing the IME for East Asian language or Right-To-Left
language, go to Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options ->
Languages Tab
7. Make sure that options Install files for complex scripts and right to left
languages and Install files for East Asian languages are checked in
the checkboxes. This requires installation of system files and the system
will prompt to insert the Operating System Disc.
8. Apply all settings and try to display language bar as mentioned in
previous section.
IME Shortcut
A shortcut key sequence can be applied to the IME as follows which can be
used to quickly enable IME for any in-focus application:
Windows 7/Vista

1. Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Keyboard and
Languages tab
2. Click on Change keyboards... button to open Text services and input
languages dialog
3. Navigate to Advanced Key Settings tab
4. If Google <Language> Input is not listed in Installed Services box, then
click Add and in Add Input language dialog box, go to the language for
which you want to enable IME in the languages tree and expand the
node. Check the checkbox next to Google <Language> Input in the list.
5. In Hot keys for input languages Select To <Language> - Google
<Language> Input
6. Press Change Key Sequence
7. Select Enable Key Sequence
8. Select option like Left ALT + SHIFT + Key 1
9. Apply all changes
10. Now opening an application like notepad and pressing Left ALT + SHIFT
+ Key 1 should open the IME.
Windows XP
1. Control Panel -> Regional and Language Options -> Languages tab
-> Text services and input languages (Details) -> Settings Tab
2. If either <Language> or Google <Language> Input not listed in
Installed Services box, then click Add and in Add Input language
dialog box, select <Language> in Input language and Google
<Language> Input in Keyboard layout/IME. Click OK
3. Press Key Settings
4. In Hot keys for input languages, Select Switch to <Language>Google <Language> Input
5. Press Change Key Sequence
6. Select Enable Key Sequence
7. Select option like Left ALT + SHIFT + Key 1
8. Apply all changes
9. Now opening an application like notepad and pressing Left ALT + SHIFT
+ Key 1 should open the IME.

Features
Status Window
Whenever you enable our IME for an application either through a shortcut or
through language bar, its status window will be visible on the screen. By default
it will be placed at the bottom right corner of your desktop which can also be
moved around. It is used for more configuration and controlling various features
of our IME. It has three to five icons (depending on the language and features
available) with leftmost being the application icon. Next to it are IME language
indicator button, keyboard button (not present for Amharic and Tigrinya),
canonical mode button (This button will be present if you have any canonical
schemes associated with the IME) and menu button in that order.

Edit Window
When the IME is enabled for an application like notepad and you start typing,
IME displays the edit window with the typed text and the corresponding word
choices in IME language. In the below example, user has typed 'googl' and the
IME has displayed five choices numbered 1 to 5.

Navigation and Selection

By default the leftmost choice will be highlighted indicating active choice. Active
choice can be changed by navigating other choices through BOTTOM-ARROW
or TAB key - which moves the selection to the right; or through UP-ARROW or
SHIFT+TAB keys - which moves the selection to left. To select one of the
choices as the new word for your application, use ENTER key which inserts the
active choice to the application at its current cursor position. Using SPACE or
any other PUNCTUATION CHARACTER also inserts the active choice to the
application along with the typed punctuation character. Exception will be when
IME thinks that there is a better choice of word containing the punctuation
character as part of the word itself. All the above controls only insert the active
choice (highlighted) into the application. Another way to insert any choice even if
it is not active is using its position number as: CTRL+<choice_number>.

Word Completions
When you type a word, the choices displayed in edit window will be either in
BLACK or BLUE color. Intuitive partial word choices for the typed content are
displayed in BLACK color which will always be grouped on the left side. If there
are any better dictionary-based word completions for the typed content, they
are displayed in BLUE color and grouped on the right side.
Paging
In the example being discussed, IME displays only 5 choices in the edit window
which is the page size setting of the edit window. It can be configured through
the menu button of the status window. If there are more choices than the page
size set, then it will be displayed in the next page. Page navigation can be done
through the small arrow buttons at the right bottom corner of the edit window or
through PageUP and PageDown keys. Even when you navigate the choices
with arrow or tab keys, the control moves to the next or previous page from
either end of the edit window.

Search
At anytime while typing in edit window, if you click the Google image on top right
corner of the edit window, it triggers a web search for the active/highlighted
choice in google.com. Search can also be triggered for non-active choice by
right-clicking on any choice and then clicking the Search... drop-down button.

User Cache

There will be scenarios where the leftmost choice is not the one you are looking
for and you select some other choice (second choice in the below example for
typed word 'program') which will be inserted into the application.

IME remembers this selection for the current user and when the user next types
'program' again, the last selected choice will now be displayed as the leftmost
choice. To share this information across all applications for a user, this is
persisted at user level even after closing the application. But this persisting
behavior can be disabled through the 'Disable User Cache' option from menu
button of status window. Note that caching doesn't apply if you select word
completions. It is only for word choices shown in BLACK color.

Switch to English
If you want to add both roman alphabet (typically English) content and IME
language content to any application, there is an easy way to switch between the
two. In one mode IME gives you choices in its language and in another mode it
just emits what you have typed. Toggling can be done by clicking the IME
language button in status window or through shortcuts: CTRL+G or F12.

Keyboard
When you don't get some words as expected choices for any rare complex
words; you can use the flexible keyboard to input any possible word. You can
open the keyboard by clicking the keyboard button on status window or through
the shortcut CTRL+K. Mouse is used to enter characters from the IME keyboard
which also triggers word completions in the edit window. Keyboard can be
closed by clicking the keyboard button again on status window or through
shortcut keys: CTRL+K or ESC. There is also option to enter Zero Width Joiner
(ZWJ) and Zero Width Non Joiner (ZWNJ) characters.

Customization
You can customize many features through IME's menu. Options available
through the menu popup in status window are:

Change or activate one of the available canonical schemes (Option

available only if there is atleast one scheme in the Schemes directory).
Select the font and size to be used to display the choices in IME
language inside edit window (Suggestion Font).

Select the font and size to be used to display the English/Roman

characters inside edit window.

Set the page size for edit window to restrict its size through number of
choices.

Enable or disable the persistence of user cache.

Add/Edit or Delete macros using Manage Macros option.

Information about the IME like version.

Help, linking to this page.

Special Cases
There are some special cases in how IME behaves for some characters in some
languages:

Example in Arabic for special case of SPACE where it is part of the typed
word.

Example in Arabic for special case of PUNCTUATION where it is part of

the typed word.

Example in Greek for special case of CAPITALIZATION where only first

character being in uppercase in input retains its casing.

Example in Greek for special case of CAPITALIZATION where all

uppercase word in input retains its casing.

Example in Greek for special case of DIGITS where number is converted

digit wise instead of its whole value.

User Defined Macros

IME supports adding custom user defined macros. Macros are short character
sequences mapped to a word of your choice. When you type a character
sequence, if there is a word corresponding to that sequence in the user-defined
macros collection then it will be shown as the first choice in the Edit Window.
You can manage the macros by choosing the 'Manage Macros...' option from the
IME's menu.

When you select this option the 'Manage Macros' dialog opens, allowing you to
add, modify and delete the set of macros.

Adding a Macro entry

Click on the 'Add' button. This will add an empty row to the Macros List. You can
double click (or select the cell and press F2) on the cell to add the new Macro
entry.
Macro Text should consist of only alpha-numeric characters and the
length should not exceed 100 characters. Macro Text is case-sensitive.
Macro Target should not contain any spaces and the length should not
exceed 50 characters.
Removing a Macro entry
Select the cells you want to delete (Use Shift+Click to select a range or
Ctrl+Click to select multiple disconnnected cells) and click on the 'Delete' button.
Note that you cannot delete single cells. If you delete a cell, the full row will be
deleted.
Modifying and Saving Macro Entries
You can edit any cell by double clicking it (or selecting the cell and
pressing F2 key).
You can cancel the edit anytime by pressing the 'Esc' key or clicking
outside the cell. Press the 'Enter' key to complete the edit.

After all edits are completed you need to click on the 'Save' button to save

your changes.

You can click on the 'Discard' button anytime to discard all the changes
made so far (after the previous save action).

Once you have the Macros in place you can use them while typing. For example
if 'Mon' is mapped to
in the Macros, then when you type 'Mon' you will
see
as the first option.

Custom Canonical Transliteration Schemes

Transliteration IME supports adding custom transliteration schemes. Defining a
scheme is done in a text file with a .scm extension. Once the scheme file is
created you need to place it in the Schemes directory and when you start the
IME the next time, it will automatically pick up the scheme files and provide you
a menu option to choose one of the available schemes.

Defining Schemes
The Scheme files (.scm files) are text files and you can use your favourite text
editor to edit them. The scheme file can be saved as UTF-8 text or UTF-16 text.
A scheme file consists of two parts, header and the mapping rules section.
Header
The scheme file header specifies multiple attributes. A sample header
with all the attributes will look like,

 version: 1.0
name: ITRANS
using classes
class-delimiters: [ ]
wildcard: #
stop-char: _

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version is a mandatory field. Currently we only support 1.0.

name is a mandatory field. The name specifies the name of the
canonical scheme. The name should not contain more than 30
characters. This is the name displayed in the 'Schemes' menu. So
a name descriptive of the scheme is useful. Here in the above
example, the Name is set to 'ITRANS' indicating this scheme file
implmenents ITRANS scheme (one of the popular schemes for
Indic languages).

using classes is an optional line. Having this line will give you the
ability to use classes (grouping of mappings under common
name). Classes are explained below.

wildcard is an optional field. Wildcards are used in conjunction with

classes

class-delimiters is an optional field. These are used in conjunction

with classes.

stop-char is an optional field. The canonical transliteration engine

by default looks for the longest prefix, matching a rule. If the user
wants to break it in the middle, then a Stop char should be be
used. For example, if 'a', 'i' and 'ai' all have valid mappings and
user wants the engine to output mapping for 'a' followed by
mapping for 'i', this can only be done by using the input sequence
'a_i' assuming '_' is the stop-char (using 'ai' will lead to the
mapping for 'ai' and not what user expected).

Class specification
You can define mutiple classes in your scheme file if you have specified
the using classes line in the header. A class definition should look like,

 class <class-name> <class-begin-delimiter>

... rules
<class-end-delimiter>

The class-begin-delimiter, and class-end-delimiter are the ones specified

in the header as mentioned above,
class-delimiters: <class-begin-delimiter> <class-end-delimiter>

If you have not specified class-delimiters in the header (but using classes
is defined) then '{' and '}' are used as the default class delimiters. The rule
specification inside a class is same as rule specification outside the class.

Rule specification
Rules are specified as,
<rule-prefix> <rule-target>

Rule prefix can consist of a sequence of ASCII characters and optionally

a class specifier. A class specifier inside a rule should be of the form,
<class-begin-delimiter><class-name><class-end-delimiter>

If the Rule prefix has a class specifier, then the Rule target should use the
wildcard. Rule Target consists of a sequence of characters in the target
language of user's choice and a wildcard (when the Rule Prefix has a
class specifier). The wildcard character is the one specified in the header
as,
wildcard: <wildcard-character>

If no wildcard is specified in the header (but using classes is defined) '*' is

used as the wildcard by default. A sample scheme file with a class
(headers omitted),
class sample {
a 1
b 2
c 3
}
a{sample} 1*

{sample}x *2
ad 14
vd 24

When the rules are processed each occurence of the class in the Rule
Prefix is replaced by the prefixes defined in the class and the '*' (wildcard)
in the target is replaced by the corresponding target in the class. So in the
above example the rules get expanded into,
aa 11
ab 12
ac 13
ax 12
bx 22
cx 32
ad 14
bd 24

The first three rules correspond to the first rule in the rule file, the next
three rules are for the second rule and the last two rules are same as the
last two rules in the file because it does not use any class specifiers (Note
that the rules inside the class are not added to the set of rules for the
scheme). Now if you use this scheme file and type "abaxcxad", you will
get the suggestion as "12123214" in the IME Window. If you are not using
classes the scheme file is just a set of rules with the version and name
specified in the header.
Example of a scheme file with no classes,
version: 1.0
name: Sample
r1 target1
r2 target2
r3 target3

Now when you use this Scheme file and type the sequence "r1r2r3" you

will see the word "target1target2target3" as the suggested option.

Integrating Scheme file with IME
To integrate the scheme file with the IME, place the scheme file (with
extension .scm) under the Schemes directory. The Schemes directory is present
under the IME installation directory (It is usually under C:/Program
Files/Google/Google <Language> Input/). Once the scheme file is placed you
need to restart the IME and the IME will pick up the scheme file while loading. If
there are any errors in the scheme file it will be displayed in a dialog so that you
can fix them. If there are no errors, the Scheme will appear under the Schemes
menu and you can activate it and start using it. Schemes can be activated in
several ways,
Selecting the scheme from the Schemes menu.
Using the shortcut key Ctrl+M (If there are multiple schemes this will
activate the last used Scheme or the first scheme if you are using
Schemes for the first time)

Using the 'Toggle Canonical Scheme' button in the Status Window.

Feedback
Your feedback is important and will help us improve the product. You can send
your comments to transliteration-support+ime@google.com.

Troubleshooting
I do not see the language toolbar.
>>> Check configuration section.
The word I want does not appear in any of the choices.
>>> In case the word you are trying to type does not appear in the list of choices
in all pages, you can use the Keyboard.
I see only boxes as choices. No character in IME language is displayed in
edit widow.
>>> Make sure that you have installed a Unicode font like Arial Unicode MS
supporting IME language and customize a font through IME menu.
How to update to a newer version?
>>> Google IME automatically updates to a newer version when one is
released. The update process happens silently, whether or not you're using the

IME at the time. If Google IME is open at the time of the update, you must close
the IME and restart the system for the new version to take effect.