[Project-ideas] Explanation about the visual keyboard [was Fwd: [Anubad] New Visual Keyboard for Bengali [was:Re: GSOC 2012 query]]

[Runa Bhattacharjee]

This was the initial explanation about the visual keyboard that I'd had given 
earlier. As this is turning out to be a frequent query, am sending it to this 
list for ease of reference.



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Subject: [Anubad] New Visual Keyboard for Bengali [was:Re: GSOC 2012 query]
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 15:14:58 +0530
From: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <sankarshan.mukhopadhyay at gmail.com>
Reply-To: anubad at lists.ankur.org.in
To: anubad at lists.ankur.org.in

On Mon, Mar 19, 2012 at 3:09 PM, Sajan Kedia <sajankedia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes, i am talking about "New Visual Keyboard for Bengali" project. For that
> what will be the development atmosphere and what will be the programming
> languages will be used?

Alright, I'll try and paste the IRC snippet from a conversation Runa
had a bit earlier in the day to help set the context and expectation.

<arrbee> currently when we have to write any of these languages we do
not write it the way we write on paper
<arrbee> for example, if we need to write कि , we do not write it as ि
क. Rather we have to type it in as क ि and then the renderining engine
rules displays it as कि this is not the visual mode of typing the one
we use on paper is the visual mode so yep, it'll require creating new
rules for the visual mode so that we can replicate that typing

We would like to leave it to the interested candidate to do the
initial study around the concept and come up with a first draft of the
proposal which talks about the programming and architecture choices.
In your proposal we would like to see your understanding of the
current input methods, layouts and any other aspect which would be
relevant with achieving the end objective of the project.

-- 
sankarshan mukhopadhyay
<http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/>
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