<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:'times new roman', 'new york', times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div></div><div>I see.</div><div><br></div><div>- Sundar<br> </div>"That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted."<br>- George Boole, quoted in Iverson's Turing Award Lecture<div><br></div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><br><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><font size="2" face="Tahoma"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> arjuna rao chavala <arjunaraoc@googlemail.com><br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Fri, September 17, 2010 8:51:27 PM<br><b><span
style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easy interface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages<br></font><br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:07 PM, BalaSundaraRaman <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" ymailto="mailto:sundarbecse@yahoo.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:sundarbecse@yahoo.com">sundarbecse@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt;">(copying my response from another list)<div class="im"><br><br>Good work, Arjuna. (Though not a fan of phonetic keyboards that rely on
English alphabet sounds due to long term negative impact,)</div></div></div></blockquote><div> I agree. May be some people are comfortable with that. We have to wait for Google to provide inscript keyboards for other languages or make inscript/alphabetic keyboards ourselves. <br>
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<div class="im"> I tried Tamil
and Malayalam and they both work very well. One suggestion would be to
handle backspace to erase the original input. For example, if I've typed
aa in Malayalam, and press backspace, it should retain 'a', no?<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div>The backspace works on the converted unicode characters.<br>If you type ra, backspace will delete the whole unicode letter. If you type raa to reflect long vowel, one backspace will make it equivalent to ra.<br>
<br>If you are starting the word with aa, it becomes a single unicode character corresponding to long vowel (A).<br><br>Regards<br>Arjun<br></div></div>
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