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Indic scripts (Devanagari and Tamil) have been supported in 5.0.3.
This information is for users who are using Indic languages (Hindi, Konkani, Marathi and Tamil) in English or International English Notes.

1. Platform : Windows 2000 platform (Indic enabled)

2. Indic Display setting : You have to enable Unicode Display to display Indic characters.

Select "Enable Unicode Display" in File->Preference->User Preference->Basic->Additional options.

3. You can use the following setting to turn on Indic support for Full Text Search in the NOTES.INI file:

FT_LIBNAME=nftgtr34.dll
FT_ALTERNATE_FILTER=naltfltr.dll
FT_USE_KV_CHARSET=1

4. Indic Transliteration : Indic transliteration is activated by the F12 key. You can use the following setting to turn on Indic support for Transliteration in the NOTES.INI file:

IndicTransliteration=1
IndicXlitScript=<script>

IndicXlitScript variable is optional.
If not specified, the default support scripts are Devanagari and Tamil.
Available scripts are Roman, Devanagari and Tamil.
Use comma as delimiter between scripts.

5. You can use the following setting to force all number formatting to a 3;2;0 digit grouping (eg. 12,34,56,789.00) in the NOTES.INI file:

IndicDigitGrouping=1

6. Web Publishing

For web publishing of Indic characters, it is advisable to use UTF-8 encoding. So, if a browser is used to view the web pages, the browser needs to support decoding of UTF-8.

7. Messaging

For outbound messages, we recommend encoding using UTF-8. For inbound messages, we have provided an ISCII option in mime setting in server document, to allow character conversion ISCII to LMBCS.

8. Additional Indic relevant settings may be selected by choosing File->Preferences->User Preferences.

Notes Regional Setting (Hindi, Marathi, Konkani, Tamil)
Notes Sorting Setting
Unicode display option and Notes Font Setting
Notes Dictionary Setting (English (United Kingdom))
Notes Import/Export Characters

• When importing an ISCII file, for the purpose of UNICODE conversion, only plain text is imported. The basic display attribute such as BLD (Bold), ITA (Italic), UL (Underline), etc are ignored. The numerals are converted to the selected script. In addition, Devanagari script is assumed if an ISCII file to be imported doesn't have script attribute.
• We recommend that you use English only in domain names, organization names, ID file names, mail file names and passwords.
• Unicode Domain Search, Full Text Search and Summarizer have some problems handling Tamil script.
• Current character iteration is based on syllabic boundaries for both Devanagari and Tamil scripts.
• In Windows 2000, under Indic locale, all Java related features will be disabled. These Java related options will always be disabled, even when user chooses to enable them. For non-Indic locales in Windows 2000, Notes will fully support all Java features enabled by the user's settings.
• Web Mail contains Java Applet. Due to the problem with JVM, we are unable to support this application when the locale is set to any of the Indic languages.
• Web Admin is supported in English only.