On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 23:40:33 +0530
Richard Newbould <[email protected]> wrote:
[...]
> I can't insert an image of what I am getting in this email, so I include a
> link to an image showing what happens when I try use the 'g' key as the
> 'halant' key as described in the above message. The d key doesn't seem to
> do anything special.
> http://www.switchedon.org/images/juktos-attempt.png
[...]
That way of showing images works.
However, the sequence of characters shown seems to be a
complete misunderstanding of how conjuncts work in Bengali,
and most other Indian languages. A reph, as in র্ক is
equivalent to
ra (U09B0) + halant (U09CD) + consonant (here, ka, ক)
Thus,
র + ্ + ক = র্ক
or, in what I have for Bangladesh/Bangladesh (which should
really be the same for you), the input sequence 'vgj' gives
'র্ক' . The sequence of characters in your image, intended to
produce a reph, is wrong.
> The font characters available are not actually rich enough to include the
> conjunct/juktos(?) characters, so could that limitation be the problem?
> What open source font should I be using? I have Lohit Bengali installed
> (amongst others that support some Bangla). I am using the Gnome Bangladesh
> keyboard. The version of Gnome is actually 2.22.1.
[...]
I don't think that it is in any way a problem with the fonts,
or with the keymap. The above should work. Let us know if it
doesn't, showing an image of what happens when you input 'vgj'
with the Bangladesh/Bangladesh keyboard.
Regards,
Gora
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