I am trying to set up a school computer lab with Hindi typing capabilities and am having trouble getting Ubuntu 10.04 to type all of the Hindi combined characters.
I'm using "Bolnagri" since it is very intuitive for people who know the English keyboard. There is a layout document in the link
which shows many combined characters but there are a few characters like ऋ which do not have any Third Level Key code mentioned.
I found ॠ with Character map at U0960 in the Hindi font but when I type in ऋ I get ॠ.
Another problem is that श्र (zxr) does not work. It does not combine into the character shown but is a half श + र.
I must be doing something wrong so am hoping someone can help.
Ubuntu – Hindi Keyboard layout is missing combined characters
10.04keyboard-layoutlanguage
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The Keyboard Layout window inexplicably won't allow you to choose more than 4 layouts. However, you can fire up gconf-editor and navigate to /desktop/gnome/peripherals/kbd/layouts and manually add as many layouts as you like.
I don't understand the arbitrary limit in the GUI, though.
I believe that you can use a keyboard layout called "Indian". I am new to Hindi (started a self-study of it last month), but from looking at images on the net for InScript and comparing it to what I see for "Indian" they look the same.
To get the "Indian" keyboard layout, I went to "System Settings" then chose "Text Entry" then selected the "+" to add an "input source" and selected "Indian" from the list.
I checked that "Indian" board a bit. All the keys seem right except for the 5, 6, 7, and 8 keys are not mapped as shown in the images I found. So I do not know how you would access the characters normally accessible there.
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I'm not sure if this will help, but as far as I know Ubuntu's handling of Devanagari script (and a few others) is not fully implemented yet...
Have a look at this Askubuntu question... Devanagari script in the Terminal
I noticed some problems in the Gnome Terminal, but things work fine in KDE's Konsole Terminal