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I like lyx because it natively supports unicode.

It seems to be the only editor out there for latex that can handle Hindi properly.

One possible solution is to export the file as Latex(pdflatex). This will generate a .tex file. Run this file through xelatex with this command from the console promt:

xelatex <full absolute path name of your .tex file>

This will generate a pdf file of the file.

I am newbie to Tex. Only downloded it a couple of days ago, but since then have been furiously trying to make it work with Hindi. A couple of hours ago, I succeeded with the following combinations:

-miktex distribution of Tex
-Lyx as the editor
-XeLatex as the pdf generator

In miktex the ...

There is bad news and good news for us. Tecniccentre does not support unicode :-(

This post clears the issue:

http://www.latex-community.org/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=12

However, it suggests using Texmaker which supports unicode. I just installed it. It is there in the 'unsupported' file of protext ...

Even though I cannot help, I can commiserate, for I am in the same position.

In my case it is Hindi. I have the same configuration as you. And I get ????? when I enter text in Hindi. Just as you, I can type properly in Hindi in notepad, Open Office Writer and all other Window based programs.

I am ...