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by carbolite103 3027 days ago
I feel like there's certainly room to grow as far as input devices for Indian scripts. I learnt to type Devanagari on the InScript keyboard, though I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand it is laid out logically with voiced and unvoiced consonants each in their own rows, vowels are neatly placed on one side, the semivowels have their corner, etc, etc. It just gets annoying when switching back and forth between InScript and Latin QWERTY though (at least क-->k?). I think an input technique based around a mixture of a keypad and gestures would be interesting to try on a touchscreen. hmm...