[OLPC India] Devanagari Effort

[Joshua N Pritikin]

On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 07:41:07PM +0530, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:
> The characters on 5,6,7,8 according to Inscript are not base characters,
> and hence to make them work, you will have to figure out a way to have
> multiple character output for a single XKB symbol table entry. We had
> tried that a few years back, and we couldn't get it to work at that
> time. I'm not very sure if it can be done now.

It's not _that_ important because it is easy enough to type the 
component glyphs to build up the composite character.

> I'm not very familiar with all the languages that use the Devanagari
> script, so I'm not sure how frequently these characters occur in a these
> languages. If they are not very frequent, I don't think it's worth the
> effort to include them in the (physical) keyboard.

They are frequent. That's why they have their own key.

So you aren't prevented from typing what you want to type but it's not 
as efficient as it could be.