User may use any Windows keyboard such as US Keyboard, English (India) keyboard, Irish keyboard, United kingdom keyboard, Belgian French keyboard ... that uses QWERTY, AZERTY, QWERTZ, or other layouts. As long as the User can type the required English character, BarahaPad/BarahaIME will convert the same to corresponding Indian character.
| QWERTY layout | |
| साफ्ट्वेर् | |
| AZERTY layout | |
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In MS Word, User may select font for complex script (such as Kannada, Devanagari, ...) in the Styles section. MS Word will use this font only when a complex script keyboard is currently selected. User may install such keyboards in Control Panel -> Region -> Language section.