Re: [LIH] Virtual multilingual keyboard

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 8:02 AM, Raj Mathur <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday 14 Nov 2009, H.S.Rai wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 6:57 AM, Sridhar M.A. <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> > Having never used VKB, I have no idea about that, sorry. But, would
>> > it not be much easier to type in text via keyboard rather than
>> > input through a mouse?
>>
>> If it is special key board and got training, then using keyboard is
>> better. Now I have to see to "Key board Layout" and then type. Of
>> course, with passage of time and practice, use of keyboard will be
>> preferred.
>
> With scim you have the choice of multiple keyboards for the same
> language.  For instance, I prefer the ITRANS keyboard for Hindi, since
> that is phonetic (type k-a-a to get Hindi "Ka" with "Aa" ki matra).
> This works fine if you're just an occasional user like me, though I
> believe the phonetic keyboard is deprecated if you're going to be doing
> serious amounts of work in that language.

If you search for iok <https://fedorahosted.org/iok/>, you'd obtain an
on-screen keyboard. More details on the URL

-- 
sankarshan mukhopadhyay
<http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/>

Sent from Raleigh, NC, United States

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