Corresponding to the earlier thread in the General Talks section (http://omicronlab.com/forum/Avro-Devanagari-t658.html), I have a request.



I can understand if this task can be very hard to do, but please do keep it in mind in the future.



Avro Keyboard is the best Indic Language input software I have ever come across in my life. The interface is excellent, the typing is so, so easy, and it has made writing Bengali as easy as ABC.



At the moment we write in the phonetic mode like this:

o a i I u U rri e OI O OU

অ আ ই ঈ উ ঊ ঋ এ ঐ ও ঔ


I was wondering, because the দেবনাগরী alphabet (হিন্দি, সংস্কৃত) follows nearly the same phonetic pattern, maybe sometime in the future you could make something like this:



o a i I u U rri e OI O OU

अ आ इ ई उ ऊ ॠ ए ऐ ओ औ



Please think about this suggestion, and please reply. It would not be so hard, as the Bengali and Devanagari alphabets follow the same pattern.



From,

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I've already worked with Devanagari Script & i'll talk to Mehedi Bhai about this...

Please do ... it would be a great help! Thank you!

Can you by any chance provide more details about what you have made?

Would it be possible to add it as a feature to the next version of Avro?



Sorry if I'm going over-the-top here, but I'm... well you could say excited!?







Thank you.

(P.S. I just had to try the cool smiles !)

Hi,

We feel your imotions! And hat-off for the honor

ATM there is no progress for the next version, you know, all we involved with something and AVRO is our leasure-time project...

We hope, we wish a lot and will let you know details as soon as possible when we go with it...

Devnagri pronunciation is little different from Bangla. So, the position of US keyboard letters and Devnagri letter should be like this:



a aa i ee u oo rri e AI O AU

अ आ इ ई उ ऊ ॠ ए ऐ ओ औ



Another thing, the modern Devnagri script has some artifitial letters with Nukta, like:

Q,q = क+Nukta; G = ग+Nukta; Z = ज+Nukta; F = फ+Nukta; etc.



But I think at present Avro should only concentrate to Bangla only.

I've just downloaded avro keyboard v.4.5.1 and I love it. I would find the facility to input devanagari also very handy especially given fact that Avro now runs from a USB pen drive and that you can make your own keyboard layout, which I have already done for bangla.

I understand if you feel that it would take you away from your mission and confuse your customers who don't need this facility however I don't think it would be too hard just to allow different indic language unicode ranges to be selected (if so desired, the default option remaining F12 toggling between English and Bangla) and for people to just create their own keyboard layout which takes hardly any time at all, saving you the trouble of having to make one yourself

many thanks

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Antony Brand
(Glastonbury, England)

I have been using Avro to type in devanagari for about a year now. You need to make a copy of your favourite bangla layout and open it in the keyboard layout editor (in the blue cog/wheel icon in the toolbar), copy the corresponding devanagari glyph into the bangla one. The only minor issue is that you have to decide whether the key you normally press to get ব stands for ब or व .

I would upload my keyboard layouts (which are all based on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harvard-Kyoto btw) but I'm too lazy to create an image so my layouts are most definitely beta but workable.