eheh...thanks guys... i'm doing just fine... this thingy is keeping me up till late night tho lately :-) anyways... kalanki-- the 'smart' converter thinks that all "lai"s that appear at the end a word or by itself must be लाई... but if 'lai' appears at the beginning of a word or in the middle, then it does produce the लै, you wanted... please use the 'suggest a word' feature to tell the smart converter to make an exception to its rules.. But currently, to produce a लै at the end or as a word by itself, you have use the square brackets [] to tell the smart converter to parse the stuff inside literally, i.e. telling it: "don't you be too smart on this particular word, i know what i'm typing!"... :-p look here: