[OLPC India] Devanagari Effort

[Manusheel Gupta]

Sayamindu,

Thanks for all your pointers till date. We appreciate your feedback.

We are in the process of finding the Unicode definitions for the characters
on the 5,6,7, and 8 keys. Your help in this aspect will be highly
appreciated.

Regards,
Manu

 Manusheel Gupta
One Laptop Per Child Inc.
http://laptop.org








On 10/15/07, Sayamindu Dasgupta <sayamindu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 01:20 +0530, Manusheel Gupta wrote:
> > Sayamindu/Joshua,
> >
> > We appreciate your suggestions/feedback.
> >
> > We are in the process of taking a decision to figure out the best-fit
> > solution to position characters on the keycaps.
> >
> > There are several classes of choices to make:
> >
> > (A) Keep everything aligned horizontally and vertically or introduce
> > an offset that will allow for larger glyphs.
> >
> > (B) Always vertically align to the horizontal stroke of the character,
> > leaving space above the stroke for those characters that have marks
> >      above or make a slight modification by sliding the character up
> > vertically when there is no mark, again making it possible to use
> > larger
> >      glyphs.
> >
> >
>
> I had a look at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Talk:Devanagari_Keyboard and
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Devi1.png (vertical alignment, no
> horizontal alignment) seemed to be the most visually appealing to me.
>
> However, this kind of glyph alignment may be difficult to implement in
> certain cases (eg: what if character aa, U0906 needs to be combined with
> vowel sign ii, U0940 ?)
>
> Between horizontal and vertical alignment (or no alignment all), I would
> suggest that more importance be given to vertical alignment, since our
> writing system makes to mandatory to align all our glyphs in line with
> the top horizontal bar present in most of the characters.
>
> In such a situation, http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Devi3.png is should
> be avoided http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Image:Devi2.png seems to be the
> safest option.
>
>
> Warm regards,
> Sayamindu
>
>
> --
> Sayamindu Dasgupta
> http://sayamindu.randomink.org/ramblings
>
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