Has anybody tried the Aksharamala input system for devanagari sold by http://www.aksharamala.com/ ?
It says: "Aksharamala is a standards-based software tool that facilitates use of English QWERTY keyboards to input text in Indian languages", but I am not sure what to think of the text at http://www.aksharamala.com/help/chm/ht_start.htm in the frame "Limitations of the product" : <quote> Typing too fast: Depending on your system performance (processor speed, hard disk response etc.) it might some times take longer for your input characters to be transliterated. Occasionally, you might notice that the English (ASCII) characters you type go un-transliterated. If you know for sure that those characters are meant to be transliterated in the given context then the cause can be that the system did not get a chance to let Aksharamala handle them and sent the characters as-is to the target application. Please try typing them slowly to resolve this problem </quote> Is this slow down effect something to be expected or may it be a pointer to bad software? I've also been looking at Tavultesoft's Keyman, but there are no readymade keyboards available for the purpose. I don't know how complicated it is to develop one. On Microsoft's site I see an INSCRIPT- and a Hindi Traditional Keyboard Layout, both not very "qwerty-phonetic". Any recommendations for a 'phonetic' kb would really be appreciated, but I guess there's little chance. Yaap --
