--- Abhay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> When I mention Shusha (I am no developer, nor any
> marketing person for the fonts/firm involved),
I didn't think that you were, and I hope that I did
not imply so. Please also note that I have
absolutely no problem with people choosing to develop
and market Shusha. It is just that I would not
recommend it when Unicode solutions are just as
easily available. This is the case at least on Linux.
I am less familiar with Windows, but even there I
understand that the Hindi Unicode support is
adequate.
> I just want to make more and more people to
> move on to writing in Hindi without going through
> the pain of keymap.
[...]
Getting people to use Hindi is a laudable goal, but
I do not understand why you find keymaps such a
pain. To my mind, using a pseudo-phonetic keymap
(where you have to type capital letters or double
letters for some characters) is inefficient, for even
a reasonable typist. As proof, I offer you the fact
that no Indian language DTP people I have met use a
phonetic keyboard. Anecdotal evidence is not worth
much, but I learnt the Inscript layout within a week
of using it regularly, to the point that I do not
need to have a picture, or stickers on the keyboard.
Furthermore, learning the one scheme pretty much
works across all Sanskrit-based Indian languages.
You obviously disagree on the phonetic layout,
and to each his own. There are a variety of phonetic
and other input maps available that work *with*
Unicode.
We are getting distracted from my main objection to
Shusha, which is that your suggested method of using
it, preserves the Shusha encoding in the saved
documents. This is absolutely, totally, 100% wrong,
as you will presumably find out when you try to move
your files to a system using a different font, or
try to share them with someone else. This question
of the encoding of the saved files should be separated
from what keyboard layout one uses to input Hindi,
and this is where Unicode, with all its warts, is the
only reasonable alternative at the moment.
Regards,
Gora
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