Hi Muhammad,

http://www.omniglot.com/writing/lontara.htm doesn't show a virama character (vowelless diacritic). Additionally, books I have about Lontara do not mention it.

Can you send some more information about it somewhere?

As for typing in Lontara, please download http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/bug/9/97/Layout02.zip.pdf (right-click and click "save target as...")

Then rename to "layout02.zip".

Then, unzip. Click "buginese.msi". This will install the Lontara typing. When it is done, click start -> control panel -> regional and language options.

Click the "languages" tab. Under "text services and input languages", click "details...".

Then click "add", select "Bulgarian" (there is no "Bugis", but "Bulgarian" uses code BG),

Under "keyboard layout/ime" Bulgarian will be selected but click and scroll to "bugis". Then click OK.

After that click "language bar", then check the box next to "show the language bar on the desktop". Click OK, and then click OK again.

Then there will be a little bar on the taskbar with a blue button which says EN (or MS or ID, or whatever language you use by default). Click on it, and choose "bulgarian". Then, anything you type should show Bugis letters.

The keyboard is the same as the one of the other Bugis font you used, except z and x are punctuation ("end of section", and symbol used to show a repeated word).

Cheers Mark

On 26/10/05, muhammad zaid zainuddin zaidpjd@umich.edu wrote:

Dear wikitech,

It's me. Again........... (the troublesome guy.) This problem just struck me. There's missing a diacritic for the buginese lontara font. This vowel use to make the characters voweless. As you guys notice that all lontara characters end with vowel /a/. The diacritic is attached. Therefore, is there any possibility to add this diacritic?

Secondly, I still cannot type in the characters via keyboard. Can someone explain it to me step by step?

Thank you

Muhammad Zaid Zainuddin

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