[Indic-dev] Keyboard [was] Updates
H S Rai
indic-dev@tug.org
Wed, 30 Oct 2002 12:38:02 +0530 (IST)
Today at 11:42am +0530 Radhakrishnan CV wrote:
> yoga> also, we would like to take the kannada keyboard into
> yoga> account. any suggestions in this regard are welcome.
>
> Is it not a phonetic keying the best way to go, instead of
> assigning glyphs to non-intuitive keys in the roman key board (as
> CDAC has done, horrible IMHO). The learning curve is too steep
> for it, while phonetic scheme is intuitive enough which means
> any novice can key in his data in his native language very
> easily. That is what we followed in Malayalam.
For persons, who work mostly in English and use USA-keyboard, phonetic
approach is suited. But, for person who is used to kannada keyboard,
may find using "kannada" keyboard easy.
Is it right to make lovers of local language to keyin using "phonetic"
approach?
Offcourse, if both way are possible, then it would be great. But,
whatever I expressed is my personal feeling without any experience, as
I never used any keyboard other than with US english layout.
Other aspect is that, if there is no taker, or use of "accounting
into regional keyboard", then why waste energy/ resources.
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H.S.Rai