I’ve installed Keyman Devanagari itrans m17n keyboard on ubuntu 22.04 and it is working well apart from CHANDRABINDU. The documentation says “<” should produce this symbol [SHIFT ,] but in my case it just produces <.
Elsewhere in the documentation it seems MM should do it, but that just produces a double anusvara.
I’ve noticed other discrepancies (comma for me produces a comma, while the documentation says it should produce a devanagari abbreviation sign, and you need two commas to get a comma).
Anybody else have this issue, or suggestions on how to solve it?
I’m glad that the keyboard we are referring to is the same. It’s really strange how the same keyboard uses different key combinations to produce the same output, it would be much helpful if you could add a video of this behavior to Google Drive.
This is what I can reproduce:
kM = क्ं
kMM = क्ँ
It is possible that different fonts show slightly different outputs. Could you send a screenshot of Keyman Configuration windows of the keyboard:
Instead of having to use the key combinations you previously described, the documentation described totally different ways of producing the three letters you want, which also answer the question to why < is not ँ.
I’m glad it was related to the keyboard documentation version.
Does typing comma twice work on other applications? Could you please report back on which keys that are still responding incorrectly from the keyboard documentation version 1.2.1?
Hi Mengheng,
Sorry for the slow reply.
So looking through the help documentation that was installed with the keyboard, the following is a list of things that are different:
Default (unshifted)
q gives क़ [makes sense - I prefer this]
[ gives [
] gives ]
\ gives
f gives फ़ [makes sense - I prefer this]
z gives ज़ [makes sense - I prefer this]
Shift
3 gives #
4 gives र्
5 gives %
6 gives ^
7 gives &
8 gives *
Q gives Q
W gives W
E gives ऎ
R gives ऋ
Y gives य़
O gives ऒ
P gives P
[ gives {
] gives }
F gives F
Z gives Z
X gives X
V gives V
B gives B
AltGR (unshifted)
123456789 give numbers
Vowels and vowel signs
@ gives "
" gives @
LL^ gives LL^
Conjuncts
k^S produces क^ष
a_i produces अ_इ
Zero Width Joiner
k+S produces क+ष
Punctuation
, , produces , ,
… produces ।।
dashes just produce dashes
The only things that bother me are candrabindu MM and the Zero Width Non Joiner _
It seems that the keyboard on your Ubuntu is still on version 1.0 but that doesn’t explain why some keys do not respond accordingly. How long have you been using this keyboard and until when did you notice the changes? How did you install Keyman?
Have you tried reinstalling the keyboard? If that didn’t work, then could you please walk me through the process of setting up Ubuntu on your Windows? This might require a reinstallation of Keyman, would you be able to try all of the deletion method?
