quite a lot of shu sha about shusha I have been typing in hindi for about 6 years - first CDAC leap and then ileap - using english keyboards mapped to inscript hindi key layouts. It took about a week to keymap them to the brain.
we could sent documents to people who had the same fonts on their system , or as pdf 's or send them the fonts as well, But CDAC leap / ileap was a pain in many different ways this leap / ileap had phonetic capabilities and they were quite sad to say the least. Then, we began using Kruti Dev font that worked on M$office . OOowriter etc , using a hindi typewriter keyboard - this again took a week to map to brain - the new keyboard layout *using* the same english keyboard there was the option of stickers but it was far easier to have a print of the keyboard lying around to refer to as and when required. Again everytime we sent documents electronically it was with the font and the keyboard layout. Now we are using Ubuntu, which has hindi and many other indian languages as default and we recently figured that the default hindi fonts use the inscript keyboard - so maybe again we will have to relearn the new keyboard but this time its hopefully going to be more stable, because everyone - will use the same underlying system - what keyboard (layout) they use is upto them - *as I have been educated recently on this list* but the beauty is now we can have the same hindi that appears at login , the same when we use an editor in hindi mode etc and even more beautiful is if you are unicode ready then बडा अच्छा राम _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
