Only suggestion I can make is using a story of why there is a serpent around
Ganeshji's waist,
Instead of calling it पेट कटा हुआ, Just use the words... पेट फटा हुआ.
I am not able to read bengali script or many of the indian ones, but this is
is kept active on my lappy just to show my point...
ପେଟ ଫଟା ହୁଆ
It is probably Oriya, now called Odisha or something appropriate...
On Thursday 29 Mar 2012 8:04:02 AM Swarup wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Some years ago we had decided to create a linux equivalent for the very
> popular Windows-based Baraha software, so that linux users would have
> access to this same keyboard setup for all Indian languages. We first
> set it up for Hindi, and when that was working well then Gora Mohanty
> made similar keymaps for several other Indian languages. This was all
> done using m17n.
>
> At the time I was very keen to get the Hindi (hi-baraha.mim) keymap
> working well, and indeed we got it working perfectly.
>
> Now I am needing to work with Bangla, and have found that in the
> bn-baraha.mim file there are two issues. If someone here can give me a
> hand to solve these, I will be extremely grateful.
>
> Here are the two issues:
>
> 1. The Bengali script equivalent of ऋ is not working. In the Baraha
> keymap, the code for this letter is "Ru". When I try to type this
> character, it appears only as "Rউ" rather than the Bengali letter ऋ. All
> the other letters in the keymap work; only this one does not.
>
> 2. The classical Bengali script has no letter for "va" (व). It has only
> "ba" (ब). But those who write Sanskrit shlokas using the Bengali script
> need a character for "va", and for that a convention has been adopted
> that the Bengali letter for "ba" ("ব" ) will be used for the sound "va".
> And for "ba", the character is slightly changed i.e. with a line through
> the bottom portion (पेट कटा हुआ), resulting in "ৰ" , just as is done in
> devanagari.
>
> So to achieve this, I moved the "ব" over to the "va" location in the
> keymap (bn-baraha.mim file). I then found somewhere the changed version
> of the character i.e. with the line through the bottom portion (पेट कटा
> हुआ), and put this new character "ৰ" , in at the "ba" location in the
> keymap file. But all consonants must be entered using the halant form
> i.e. half-form, and I could not manage to enter this character with a
> halant. Due to this, the character is not working properly i.e. will not
> combine with other letters when needed, to form conjunct characters.
>
> I am attaching here the bn-baraha.mim as originally created, and then
> the changed version (for attaching, I have changed its name to "new
> bn-baraha.mim") where I have moved the "ba" letter over to the "va"
> location, and for "ba" placed the full rather than halant version of
> "ba".
>
> Someone please kindly help with these two needed repairs.
>
> Thanks,
> Swarup
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