On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 19:49 -0400, Golam Mortuza Hossain wrote: > It seems, I can't write "র্য" (RA-Japhala) without using ZWJ in my > feisty box. > Can someone shed some light on latest convention for > "Reph-Ra-Japhala" typing issue?
র্য is written with 'r' + '-' + '/' + 'Z' র্য is written with 'r' + '+' + '/' + 'Z' র্য is written with 'r' + '/' + 'Z' [ Z is shift-z here in all the three cases] At least how it works on my Feisty Laptop and Desktop. Now, for the original point of the '-' (dash). This very syntax in Bangla, like some other ones, is a direct child of the Western syntax. And we use it exactly the way the Western syntax is used, even the concept of 'en' and 'em' dash are inherited from the West almost in a verbatim manner. So, then, the dash, there on the keyboard, does exactly that thing in Bangla what it was kept there for to do on the QWERTY keyboard in the first place. And still, we are going to pluck it away from there, and put somewhere else, while all the time the same symbol for the same work sits on the keyboard. Why, does it not seem forced? What are your reactions, Jamil, Runa and others? I am not sure why some friends here on the list want it like that. They must have their reasons. But, I am telling you my point. I really write quite a lot in Bangla. (And this 'quite' here is actually a British understatement, you can get that from www.saltlakesoft.com/dd-ts/bangla, and that is really a very small portion of my Bangla texts.) And if all my friends here decide on the 'displace-dash' project, I would finally have to resort on the same thing that Jamil has done quite a few times for me, that is, tweaking the 'Probhat' file, and de-displacing the dash again into its original place. Those people like me, who have to write really quite a lot, have to use touch typing, and that second lost every time I write a 'dash', after the day, adds up to considerable waste of time, together with the slowing down of the process and disturbing the thought-chain. And if you compare it with the 'non-joiners', how many times do we have to write those crooked conjoint consonants with non-joiners? Does it any way compare with the number of times we write the dash, or its 'em' and 'en' versions, that actually is very easily done with the 'autocorrect' function of the processor, replacing two dashes with an 'en' and three dashes with an 'em'. I think this mail was quite long. But, please take it as a voraciously Bangla writing old man's distress call. --- das ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Bengalinux-core mailing list Bengalinux-core@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bengalinux-core
