--- On Tue 10/15, Doug Ewell < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
From: Doug Ewell [mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]]
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Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2002 08:57:19 -0700
Subject: Re: Hindi keyboard with the Microsoft Hindi font Mangal
> J
Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:
> The use of either or shift states in Microsoft-
> supplied keyboards is very rare. The reason it is rare is that it
> interferes with programs that use those shift states to perform
> control actions (such as Microsoft Word).
I agree completely that assigning
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, John McConnell wrote:
> Both the Persian (Farsi) keyboard and the Devanagari keyboard include
> both ZWJ and ZWNJ. ZWJ is 1+Shift+Ctrl, while ZWNJ is 2+Shift+Ctrl.
But these don't work in many applications, and most important of all,
Microsoft Word.
> The problem appears wi
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Subject: Re: Hindi keyboard with the Microsoft Hindi font Mangal
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Doug Ewell wrote:
> I visited Microsoft's keyboard site at:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/keyboards/keyboards.asp
>
> and couldn't find any mappings for ZWJ
On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Shift-Control-1 will insert a ZWJ; and Shift-Control-2 will insert a ZWNJ. This
> combination is present across all Indic keyboards that ship with Windows 2K and
> later.
> kr
>
But sadly, apart from the obvious pain in that certain place to t
On Mon, 14 Oct 2002, Doug Ewell wrote:
> I visited Microsoft's keyboard site at:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/keyboards/keyboards.asp
>
> and couldn't find any mappings for ZWJ or ZWNJ on the Hindi keyboard
> either.
Which also means that the layouts a bad reference for keyboard layo
From: "Doug Ewell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> It's too bad you can't see that combination on the
> Javascript keyboards at Globaldev.
The use of either or shift states in Microsoft-supplied
keyboards is very rare. The reason it is rare is that it interferes with
programs that use those shift state
James Kass wrote:
> ZWNJ prevents conjuncts (or half-letter forms) from appearing which
> forces explicit virama in the display. See "Explicit Virama" on pp
> 214-215 of TUS 3.0.
I looked all over that section, but got caught up in all the little ZWJ
boxes and missed that passage. Thanks. I
According to this letter recently posted on another list:
Shift-Control-1 will insert a ZWJ; and Shift-Control-2 will insert a ZWNJ. This
combination is present across all Indic keyboards that ship with Windows 2K and
later.
kr
Best regards,
James Kass.
Doug Ewell wrote,
> I know that ZWJ is used in Devanagari to form explicit half-consonants.
> What would ZWNJ do?
ZWNJ prevents conjuncts (or half-letter forms) from appearing which forces
explicit virama in the display. See "Explicit Virama" on pp 214-215 of
TUS 3.0.
Best regards,
James Kas
wrote:
> I am trying to use the Hindi keyboard with the Hindi font
> Mangal provided by Microsoft. I'm not understanding what key
> I should press to get the ZWJ (Zero-Width Joiner) as well as
> the Zero-Width-Non-Joiner (ZWNJ). I've looked at various
> keyboard mappings online and not found h
> -Original Message-
> Date/Time:Mon Oct 14 19:55:51 EDT 2002
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> I am trying to use the Hindi keyboard with the Hindi font
> Mangal provided by Microsoft. I'm not understanding what key
> I should pres
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