Nepali input method variants for ibus-m17n.

# make install

restart the ibus for changes to appear.

$ ibus restart

We provived some of the layout not offered by the m17n-db. m17n provides the handy way to add, layout see tutorial.

• Few frequently used symbol (i.e. “~!@#$%^&*(){}<>”) unavailable in romanized layout, resulting in constant switching, which is major headache for programmers and localizers.
• Vanilla Romanized doesn’t do ovious corrections.
• Romanized layout was designed for fixed layout, where composite entries were not possible

Use escape sequence backward slash (\) for accessing default mapping. The all other mapping for the backward slash \ has revoked in all layouts. e.g. for typing / use \/.

Most of us never knew the secret of typing “न्‍न” since you always got “न्न”. Problem was special character Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ), which was invisible cumbersome to find!

NOTE: If you see no different between “न्‍न” and “न्न” your have a smart renderer.

Most of the people have hard time remembering the sequence for special characters, here we provide phonetic/trasliterative completions. And wait, old method still works and there few more too!

NOTE: If you see no different between “त्र” and “त्‌र” or “श्र” and “श्‌र” your have a some problem in your renderer.

While writing by hand, each glyph is seen separately but ironically each section is character on its own, combined to create a new character.

for example:

आ ≠ अा (अ + ा)

ओ ≠ अो (अ + ो)

ऐ ≠ एे (ए + े)

But, in computers characters is represented by code, which is infact different even though they looks same/similar. This is why spell checker flags them, now its all right to make those mistakes. No more hunt and peak for आ, ओ, औ, ऐ.

Semivowel(diacritic) in sequence of 2 will create the independent vowel form.

Independent vowel followed by semivowel.

We have remapped some of the symbols specially in lipi layout.

NOTE: This section is not applied for all layouts.

Since ibus runs setxkbmap in background, which alternative layout, is reset to us (qwerty).

as they say:

Go Away Or I Will Replace You With A Very Small Shell Script

for now it only works for dvorak layout, see hijack.sh script to change to other layout. Here is back story of endeavor.

# make hijack