[Anubad] GSOC - New Visual Keyboard for Bengali

[Runa Bhattacharjee]

Hi Jeh,

Thanks for you interest in our project. I am also cc-ing my reply to our
mailing list so that we could continue this discussion there. Please find below,
my response to your query.

On সোমবার 19 মার্চ 2012 06:00 অপরাহ্ণ, Jeh Agarwal wrote:

> I am interested in working with ankur.org.in <http://ankur.org.in> for my
> GSoc Project. I went through the listed projects and am interested in "*New
> Visual Keyboard for Bengali*".�My birth place being Kolkata I am fluent in
> Bengali and I am willing to take up this project full time and satisfy all
> learning prerequisites. �I will be having a 3 month summer vacation and I
> think I can complete the project within the stipulated time. Please tell me
> more about this project and how to proceed with it.


I am assuming here that you are familiar with the writing system of Bengali.
Unlike the way in which it is written on paper, popular input methods require
that the characters be typed in a non-visual way. For instance, while on paper
one would write কি in the following sequence: ি ক , using an input method the
sequence changes to ক ি . The rendering engine then converts this key sequence
to কি . The visual keyboard would replicate this typing method. The aim is to
then make it available to input method systems like IBus.

regards
Runa




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