On Tue, 22 Nov 2005 00:23:30 +0530 Abhay Kedia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 11/21/05, rajesh jha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have seen Lohit-Hindi on the FC4 system and it works fine. I > > feel that you have to do a few more tweakings in getting the > > Hindi keyboard working. I need not send it to you, the option of > > using the eng or dev nagri keyboard is already there within the > > linux system-I use FC4 and Mandrake10.1 It is easy to switch > > between devnagri and english layout by simply clicking on the > > icon which appaears on your system. > > > > I am doing exactly what you are saying but things are not working. I > checked the dev keyboard layout by opening it in kate and looks like > the alternative characters for number keys 3-8 are not present in > it. May be Fedora is doing some tweaking with its keyboard layout > and thus I asked you to send it to me. > those characters - ksha, tra, jnya etc are not on the XKB keyboard. for the plain reason that they are conjuncts formed by sequence of three characters, XKB has limitation of not being able to map single key to multiple characters, so its not implemented in the default 'dev' keyboard. type them as sequences KA halant SSA, TA halant RA , JA halant NYA. Karunakar -- ************************************* * Work: http://www.indlinux.org * * Blog: http://cartoonsoft.com/blog * ************************************* _______________________________________________ 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]/
