InScript keyboard

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InScript (short for Indic Script) is the

, among others. The InScript layout is built into most of the major 5.x and 6.x from third parties.

Keyboard layout

Devanagari InScript bilingual keyboard layout has a common layout for all the Indian scripts. Most

character order. A person who knows InScript typing in one script can type in any other Indic script using dictation even without knowledge of that script.

History

The first InScript keyboard was standardised in 1986 under the auspices of the DOE (Department of Electronics at the Ministry of Communications & Information Technology).

, as well as that of normalisation.

These new features had marked repercussions on storage as well as inputting and an urgent need was felt for a revision whereby each new character introduced in Unicode would be accommodated on the keyboard and a uniform manner of entering data as well as storing data would be devised. With this urgent requirement in mind, CDAC GIST involved in the initiative all major players: IBM, Microsoft and Red Hat Linux and hence in 2008, a joint meeting was organised between CDAC GIST and senior representatives of these multi-nationals to devise a common and uniform strategy for inputting and equally important for storage. This would enable the creation of one single keyboard and more importantly one single storage, essential for all high-end NLP. A task-force was created with two major briefs:

1. Evolve a design policy which would retain the major features of the existing Inscript keyboard.
2. Accommodate on the keyboard every character proposed in Unicode 5.1 and also ensure that the design could accommodate all future additions. This resulted in a document by the joint deliberations of all these companies described as proposal for “Enhanced InScript keyboard layout 5.1”.

See also

• Clip font
• Tamil 99 keyboard for Tamil.

References

External links

• Online Hindi Typing
• Hindi Keyboard
• InScript Keyboard Overlay
• Inscript Malayalam Keyboard Help (PDF)
• TVS Devanagari Bilingual keyboards with details of keyboard layout, installation instructions for Windows/Linux, shops and online purchase
• Typing Devanagari text using Hindi Traditional keyboard
• Balendu Sharma Dadhich on Why Hindi users must adopt Inscript