Baraha

For other uses, see Baraha (disambiguation).

Baraha
Developer(s)	Sheshadrivasu Chandrasekharan
Stable release	10.10.152^[1]
Operating system	Microsoft Windows
Type	Word processor
License	Free trial / Proprietary
Website	http://www.baraha.com/

Baraha is a word processing application for creating documents in Indian languages. It was developed by Sheshadrivasu Chandrashekaran with an intention to provide a freeware to enable and encourage Indians use their native languages on the computers. Baraha was first released in Kannada in 1998 and later on in other Indian languages. Baraha can be effectively used for creating documents, sending emails and publishing web pages. Baraha uses a transliteration scheme, which allows the user to write any Indian language in Latin text and later convert it to the respective language. Baraha package consists of Baraha, BarahaDirect, BarahaPad, FontConvert, BarahaConvert and BarahaSort programs. This package includes TrueType fonts for various Indian languages. The latest full version of the software is not free anymore. The full-featured software requires a registration key, which currently costs $49.95 or ₹2500.

BarahaUnicode

BarahaUnicode package consists of BarahaPad and BarahaIME programs which support Unicode only. Latest Release is 10.10

Languages supported

Baraha 10.0 supports Kannada, Devanagari, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Gujarati, Gurumukhi, Bengali, Assamese and Oriya scripts. The following table shows the languages supported.

Script	Languages
Bengali	Bengali, Assamese, Manipuri
Devanagari	Hindi, Marathi, Sanskrit, Nepali, Konkani, Kashmiri, Sindhi
Gujarati	Gujarati
Gurumukhi	Punjabi
Kannada	Kannada, Konkani, Tulu, Kodava
Malayalam	Malayalam
Oriya	Oriya
Tamil	Tamil
Telugu	Telugu

References

↑ http://www.baraha.com/baraha_setup.php

External links

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