Does this Devanagari Script Mac thing work in LJ?

[maeve66]

More on the World of Learning Hindi.

I am so liking doing this. I tried to learn Gaelic on my own, when I was, like, 22. Total failure. That Teach Yourself paperback, with the pretty interlace design... so much dreck, given away years ago. Ah, but nowadays, with the INTARWEBZ -- it's so much better. And I am more motivated. And I think I will somehow manage to use Hindi, much more than I ever would have, Gaelic.

Anyway, here, this is an AWESOME site that a non LJ friend told me about, which is attached somehow to SOAS (the School of Oriental and African Studies, in London). It teaches you Devanagari (which is pronounced something like DewanAHgree) script. I've been working at them in my greatly beloved Hindi language journal, writing each character several times, practicing pronunciation (um, between the retroflex and dental /ta/s, /tha/s, /d/s, and /dha/s, I cannot tell a lick of aural difference), and working on recognizing the shapes. So fun. And then there is a self-testing section that I am soooo enjoying.

So.

Here's my name in Hindi (no, it doesn't say maeve66):

ऎबरा

Well, boo. Apparently the Devanagari keyboard thingy that works in my Mac, and while I am IMing (because, you know, there's a lot of call for me writing "accha!" and "mere dil" while I am IMing various people) does not work in Livejournal. Boo. Very boo.

ETA: Further, here, a whole note to M., in Devanagari -- my first name is at the end.

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Mac chagrin

[maeve66.livejournal.com]

This is weird. I can see the Hindi script typewritten, at WORK on my Windows PC, but not at home, on my Mac. That seems unusual to me, for a PC to outdo my Mac...

Oh! And the typewritten Devanagari contains an error, corrected in the handwritten version! The typewritten version isn't my name at ALL!

Re: Mac chagrin

[maeve66.livejournal.com]

Hm. After another week or so of learning this stuff, I now realize that my handwritten thing is wrong AGAIN. And it's a dumb mistake, and I wonder why I didn't catch it before. Lord, I wish I could just type it in here.