VOWELS AND SIMPLE CONSONANTS

Yuktaksharas:

𑁍 Mechanical rule for yuktakshara:

A consonant by default comes with an implicit অ-vowel attached. Other vowels are to be typed after that in formats described in place. However, for compund characters (yuktakshara), the general rule is something like this:

For ন্দ,

type 'n' for 'ন', followed by a '\' for virama or hasanta (্), and then type the second consonant 'd' for 'দ'

For compund characters with 3 letters, e.g., ক্ষ্ম,

type 'k', then '\', then 'Sh', then 'm'

𑁍 Virama:

'\'.

𑁍 Uppercase rule for compound characters:

There is another shortcut for compund characters. Compound characters are automatically formed when the second, third and latter components are typed in upper-case, e.g., শ্চ can also be written as 'SC' instead of 'S\c'. For ঙ্খ type 'NgKh'.

Exceptions: Some letters don't follow this uppercase rule, viz., ট, ঠ, ড, ঢ, ত, থ, দ, ধ, ন, র, য, শ, ষ, স. Their codes for second letter in compounds are:

ট    ঠ    ড    ঢ    ত    থ    দ    ধ    ন    র    য    ব

Z    Zh    X    Xh    V    Vh    W    Wh    >    /    ]    w

Obviously every compound character can be typed with the virama rule.

Here's the complete list of how every character can be typed as second, third and fourth components of a yuktakshara. Those that are not in the list must be typed with virama (\) in between each pair of elements of the compound.

CUSTOMIZATIONS

𑁍 Consecutive consonants or vowels:

To make a compromise between grammatical and phonetic systems of input, it might be that sometimes expected character combinations don't come from typed codes, e.g, to type 'কহিলেন', presumed code should be 'khilen' but in place of 'কহ', 'kh' gives 'খ' by default.

This happens rarely. Users are suggested to type the last letter in the problematic combination again (whenever this happens) in the same string, because in most feasible cases these anomalities have been fixed in such a way.

'khh' should give 'কহ'

As in 'দিই', 'dii' gives 'দী' but 'diii' gives 'দিই'

𑁍 Additionals for Sanskrit and currency:

Though I have never come across the use of the ones other than Avagraha.

HH    ঽ

<<    ৄ

R<    ৠ

LLi}    ৡ

}    ৢ

}}    ৣ

I add to this list the symbol of Indian Rupee, dervied from the Devanagari script:

'$' gives '₹'

'$$' gives '$'

𑁍 We have incorporated into our typing engine the grammar rules known as

ণ-ত্ব বিধান and ষ-ত্ব বিধান

as applicable for yuktaksharas, e.g., 'Sh>' would give 'ষ্ণ'. This shall also prove to be an useful shortcut. But make sure you know the grammar rules. Some computer code cannot be a substitute for basic knowledge of a language while writing that language; it is only for typing ease. If used to supplement lack of grammatical sense, in the long run this device will only prove harmful.

𑁍 Popular keys from Avro:

z for য

^ for ঁ

f for ফ

v for ভ

NG for ঞ

t`` for ৎ

,, for virama (◌ ্ )

𑁍 Popular input strings from Avro:

Otherwise dependent vowels carry the simple layout as itrans. Some popular alternatives from Avro:

ঋ(ৃ) rri

ঈ(ী) ee    

রেফ্ rr

𑁍 User-made customizations:

You can make your own custom input strings but editing or adding to between BEGIN_TABLE and END_TABLE lines of Sasankadeva.txt file, but I'd advise you not to try that if you are not well-versed in computer coding, and not extremely proficient in Bengali grammer. One problematic line has the potential to ruin for you the whole, or at least a considerable part of, input table.

    However, make sure not to change anything above BEGIN_TABLE, maybe apart from 'maximum number of input keys'.

𑁍 Punctuations:

The end of sentence in prose Bengali is Danda or '।' as you are already perhaps familiar with. Single fullstop yields '।', while double gives the double danda. Three consecutive dots give ellipsis. Comma, hyphen etc. are as usual, except that single slash gives র-ফলা and double slash gives slash (/).

BEGINNERS' VERSION: