How to type odia using english phonetic

Phonetic typing isn’t really an InDesign setting the input method normally comes from your operating system, while InDesign handles the Unicode text and shaping.

If you’re on Windows 10/11, Windows already includes an Odia Phonetic keyboard. Go to Settings > Time & language > Language & region, add Odia, then under its language options add/select the Odia Phonetic keyboard. You can then type phonetically using the English keyboard and Windows transliterates it into Odia. Microsoft specifically lists Odia among its built-in Indic phonetic keyboards, so you shouldn’t need a separate IME.

In InDesign, use a Unicode Odia font and the Adobe World-Ready Paragraph Composer, which is intended for Indic scripts.

One thing to watch if your old PageMaker/Akruti workflow used one of Akruti’s older encodings/fonts, that is not necessarily the same as Unicode text. Akruti itself distinguishes between its older Oriya fonts and its Unicode Oriya fonts, so old material may need converting rather than simply changing the font.

If you let us know whether you’re on Windows or macOS, and which version of InDesign/Akruti you’re using, we can give more direction, possibly.

You’ll have to be more explicit. What is ‘akruti’, what do you mean by ‘english phonetic’ (‘phonetic’ isn’t English, it’s language-independent). And what is ‘odia’? A language, probably. So you want to write Odia using phonetic symbols? Or do you want to write transliterated Odia (which is not the same as using phonetic symbols).

Tell us all. Be precise.