Re: [Indlinux-group] Fwd: [Lohit-devel-list] Added New Indian Rupee symbol — INR to Lohit Devanagari

[Bernard M. <bm...@fr...>]

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:46:28PM +0530, Sudhanwa Jogalekar wrote:
> Now is the time for modifying the Unicode for Indic.
> The problem is not just about adding the Rupee symbol. There are so
> many other problems to be solved.
> 
> As the modifications is taking momentum, lets add the characters like
> " ? etc. which are not there in the Indic (I know about Devnagari.
> please feel free to add other languages).> 
Punctuation characters are not inside Indic charts but since they are
present in other charts they don't need to be added elsewhere.

> When you start typing such document, keyboard switching between
> Devanagari and Roman is absolute pain.
I agree with you that having to switch keyboard while not changing
language is very painful. That's because of this issue that layouts
such as Bolnagri, which permits to type Devanagari and punctuation at
the same time, have been created. See :
http://www.indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/BolNagri.
 
It seems you misunderstood a bit how Unicode works. The fact that some
(maybe popular) keyboard layouts are bad designed doesn't have anything
to do with the Unicode standard.

Regards,
-- 
Bernard Massot