🌐 Baraha – Type and convert between Indian languages using your English keyboard.
Need to write, read, or convert text in Indian languages but only have a standard English keyboard? Then Baraha is one of the most useful tools for the job.
With Baraha, you can type in languages such as Hindi, Kannada, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Bengali and more, while converting text between Unicode and ANSI-based fonts. That makes it ideal for communication, publishing, and translation across Indian scripts.
Why choose Baraha?
Most Indian languages still use fonts based on ANSI (TrueType), which was standard before operating systems like Windows and Linux began supporting Unicode. Baraha bridges the gap between the two by letting you write, read, and convert text across systems and font formats.
Features in Baraha
- Type Indian languages with an English keyboard (e.g., “namaste” becomes नमस्ते)
- Convert between ANSI and Unicode
- Support for 10+ major Indian languages
- Language conversion between scripts (e.g., from Hindi in Devanagari to Malayalam)
- BarahaPad: A lightweight text editor for writing and editing
- BarahaIME: An input method to type directly in other programs like Word or a browser
A tool for everyday communication and professional publishing
Baraha is used by:
- Students and researchers working with Indian languages
- Newspapers and online publications that still use ANSI-based fonts
- Programmers and udviklere working on multilingual systems
- Private users who write letters, emails, or documents in their native languages
The program is especially useful if you want to read old documents published in ANSI format—or send mail that can be easily read regardless of the recipient’s system.
Example: From Devanagari to Malayalam
A user receives a message written in Hindi using the Devanagari script. They understand the language but aren’t used to reading Devanagari. With Baraha, the text can be converted to the Malayalam script, which the user finds more comfortable to read. This makes Baraha a rare yet essential tool for cross-language and cross-script communication.