Lipikar for Windows

Quick summary

Lipikar is a lightweight desktop utility that lets you produce text in languages other than English without relying on keyboard input. Instead of memorizing key-to-character mappings or using special keyboard layouts, you point-and-click characters from a font-specific grid and build your text with the mouse. It is free to use and does not require registration.

How it operates

• After installation, choose any font already present on your system and open it in the app.
• Lipikar displays a grid of all printable characters for that font (character codes roughly from 32 through 255).
• Click a character in the grid to append it to the composition area; repeat to compose a passage.
• When finished, copy or transfer the composed text into your preferred word processor for final formatting.

Languages and writing systems available

Lipikar works with many non-Roman scripts and regional fonts. Examples include:

• Cyrillic, Georgian, Greek, Hebrew, Mongolian, Arabic
• Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Kashmiri, Kodagu
• Baluchi, Brahui, Dzongkha, Nepali, Sanskrit, Sinhala, Tibetan, Tulu, Urdu

If the font installed on your computer is non-Unicode (legacy, font-based), Lipikar can often render and let you compose using those glyphs.

Limitations and important notes

• The program does not support extended Unicode encodings or DBSC fonts.
• Files saved outside the app’s usable folders may not be accessible by Lipikar.
• Lipikar is not a full-featured word processor: text formatting tools are limited.
• The maximum size of a composition saved in the app is roughly 60,000 characters.
• It is not a virtual keyboard in the traditional sense; it provides an alternate, mouse-driven input method rather than remapping your keyboard.

Helpful features

• Mouse-only composition — no need to remember complex modifier key combinations.
• A magnifier/zoom preview that enlarges characters so you can inspect glyphs before inserting them.
• Font-based search that helps locate text by the specific font used.
• A customizable FontMap layout: pick the characters you use most and save that arrangement for quick access.
• A keyboard map viewer that displays which keyboard keys correspond to which font glyphs (useful for reference).

Final thoughts

For academics, regional-language typists, and anyone who needs to produce short passages in non-English or legacy font encodings, Lipikar provides a simple, no-keystrokes way to compose text. It’s suited to composing snippets or documents to be exported into a word processor rather than serving as a comprehensive editing suite.