Gautam Sengupta

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icon company University of Hyderabad icon location India icon location Professor of Linguistics & Cognitive Science (retired) - MA Jawaharlal Nehru University - Ph.D. University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

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[itrans_devanagari_hindi] [itrans_bengali] Indic Phonetic ITRANS keyboards bug? (Devanagari and Bangla)

These problems were anticipated and avoided more than a decade ago in ISIS Bangla/Bengali (deprecated since) and are also absent from Gautami Bangla/Bengali: https://keyman.com/keyboards/gautami_bangla_bengali.

In Bengali Phonetic (ITRANS) keyboard there is no way to type nairṛti (नैरृति) in Bengali (নৈর্ঋতি).

Try adding a virāma between the র and the ঋ. That works in Gautami Bangla/Bengali. I suspect it will work here as well.

[sil_bengali_phonetic] questions about Bengali keyboard

As far as I can tell U+09d7 is completely redundant, except perhaps when you want to quote the right half of the mātrā (combining vowel form) and write about it.

[sil_bengali_phonetic] questions about Bengali keyboard

The only use I can think of would be to quote the right component of the vowel sign au in technical literature. That component will of course never appear without...