Here are 228 fonts that can be downloaded so as to start getting used to Laotian writing. To be able to use these characters without a special keyboard, you can download the picture that has been prepared to relate between the English keyboard (QWERTY) and Laotian letters. If you use a different keyboard, make sure you change o QWERTY, before starting to try and write in Lao, so as to change the language of the keyboard.
To install new fonts
- Click on one of the fonts and ’save’ on the computer
- On the computer, click on the "Start" menu and then go to the "Control Panel"
- Click on "Fonts"
- In the "File" menu, click on the heading "Install new fonts"
- Find the place where you registered the font that you downloaded, then install.
Finally, note that there exists software, which is only available for PC’s, which enables you to write Lao : LaoScript, incorporating numerous characters.
