[Indic-computing-users] Debate from the Pune GNU/Linux list...

[Frederick N. (FN) <fr...@by...>]

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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 02:16:28 +0530
From: G Karunakar <kar...@fr...>
To: plu...@pl...
Subject: Re: [PLUG] Typing in devanagari/ Keyboard layout
Reply-To: plu...@pl...

Shridhar Daithankar wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>  I am once been bitten by this bug to edit devanagari/marathi documents.
> 
> I have enabled hindi keyboard in KDE control centre and install code2000 and 
> raghu fonts. Using these, I am able to type in marathi in kedit/kword etc. 
> pretty easily.
> 
> But I lost as far as keyboard layout is concerned. Can anybody point me to 
> right direction?
> 
Since above fonts are unicode ones, you need unicode keymaps, best are 
the Inscript keymaps, available at 
http://www.indlinux.org/keymap/keymaps.php
XFree86 4.3 onwards has all the inscript keymaps included, older X ( 4.1 
, 4.2 ) also have devanagari map. See /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb/symbols/dev
(you can find others like tam, guj, gur, kan, tel etc also )

I personally like inscript, you can type your name in other scripts too 
:), apart from that once learnt its very easy to type & fast.
Initially many prefer phonetic/romanised systems but in long run if you 
want to write in your language inscript is the best.

Regards,
Karunakar


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