| Keyboard Layout and
Typing style in Unicode Environment :: |
| With adaptation to the Nepali
Unicode Environment, some logical but essential changes have to
be incorporated in the current Nepali typing procedures. And have
to switch the keyboard layout as shown below not the font as usually
we do to type in Nepali. |
| Following are the two different Nepali keyboard
layouts : |
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| The typing style in Unicode Environment differs
from the existing style for the current fonts. Now, you have a
more logical approach rather than a mere image representation
of characters.
Some of the important changes are demonstrated below. You will
also notice that you no longer need to remember ALT combination
characters, these characters are taken care of by forming different
characters in a logical manner. |
| To be able to type
in unicode environment please follow the instruction :: |
- You'll see the following language in the task
bar like follows :
- You can either click in the language in the language bar or
press the ALT + SHIFT to switch between the languages. |
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| - After Clicking the Sanskrit , the Nepali Unicode
Environment is enabled. In the language bar ,now Enligh
langauge(EN) environment has been changed in to Sanskrit or Devnagari Script (SA ). |
| If more than one unicode environment
is installed like Nepali Unicode traditional and Nepali Unicode
Romanized, first you have to follow the above instruction.When
you can see the Devnagari Script (SA) has been
enabled, now you can switch to any of the Installed Nepali Unicode
environment . |
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| - Click the keyboard icon on the language bar when SA being enabled. You'll see the following if
you have installed more than one Nepali Unicode Environment Installed: |
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- Please click anyone of the unicode environment
to enable to type in selected unicode environment. Suppose if
you click Nepali Unicode Romanized, now you can use the selected
language keybaord layout.
- Typing style in both environment is same.The only difference
is in keyboard layout. The typing style in Nepali Unicode (Romanized)
has been simplified for English User to type Nepali easily. |
| Nepali language conjuncts:: |
- You may need to know the different forms of
Nepali language conjuncts before we show you how to type in
Unicode environment.Two Unicode special formatting control characters
play an important role in representing the different forms of
Nepali language conjuncts:
1. 'zero-width joiner' (ZWJ)
2. 'zero-width non-joiner' (ZWNJ)
1. A Zero Width Joiner (ZWJ) is typically used
to fuse two characters that normally do not form a ligature
or a fused form.
2. A Zero Width Non Joiner (ZWNJ) is typically
used to represent the separated form of characters that normally
fuse together to form a ligature.
In the context of Nepali, the halant representation has an implicit
behavior similar to zero-width joiner.
The ZWJ and ZWNJ, among other things, can be used to represent
different forms of conjuncts as shown in the following example:
The ZWJ following the consonant+halant sequence (‘ka’+
halant in the example) represents the half-consonant form of
the syllable (‘ka’ in the above example). The ZWNJ,
on the other hand, is used in representing the split or separated
form of the conjunct. When neither the ZWJ nor the ZWNJ appears
following the halant character, the conjunct is shown in the
customary full ligature form.
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| Sample typing in
the unicode has been given below :: |
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