Public bug reported:

Binary package hint: gucharmap

The most common way to say thankyou in Hindi is something like "shukriya".
The correct spelling of this word is unusual, and I can not reproduce it with 
the character map.  Moreover,
 * I could not find any electronic source that spells "shukriya" correctly
 * I could not generate the correct spelling with any software or websites I 
could find.  I tried SCIM, http://www.iit.edu/~laksvij/language/hindi.html, 
Google translate, etc.  They all either leave out this common word, or spell it 
incorrectly!
 * but, I am sure I have the correct spelling!  Both the Oxford Hindi-English 
dictionary and Rupert Snell's "Beginner's Hindi" spell it the same way.

Details: the "kri" in "shukriya" is spelled with ऋ adjoined with the "i" 
character.
(Just like "ki" is ka (क) with -i to become कि.)
This "kri" is shukriya is typically mispelled as कि.

Usually, in the character map, I can select the main character (in this
case ऋ) and then the -i character, and it forms the composite character.
This works for क and all other consonants I tried.  But it doesn't work
for ऋ.  It should!

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 12 12:11:51 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gucharmap
Package: gucharmap 1:2.22.1-0ubuntu2
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
 
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gucharmap
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-19-386 i686

** Affects: gucharmap (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug

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Can't write thankyou in Hindi!!!
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/282257
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