[Wikimediaindia-l] Gyanpad (Knowledge kiosk) web app: Easy interface to search Wikipedia and sister sites in Indian languages

[Shiju Alex]

>
> We have to wait for Google  to   provide  inscript keyboards for other
> languages or make  inscript/alphabetic keyboards ourselves.
>

:) Why wait for Google?

We have lot of programmers among us. Let us form a team and start working on
it.



On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:51 PM, arjuna rao chavala <
arjunaraoc at googlemail.com> wrote:

>
> On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 3:07 PM, BalaSundaraRaman <sundarbecse at yahoo.com>wrote:
>
>> (copying my response from another list)
>>
>>
>> Good work, Arjuna. (Though not a fan of phonetic keyboards that rely on
>> English alphabet sounds due to long term negative impact,)
>>
>  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.
>
>>  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?
>>
> The backspace works on the converted unicode characters.
> 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.
>
> If you are starting the word with aa, it becomes  a single unicode
> character corresponding to long  vowel (A).
>
> Regards
> Arjun
>
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