![]() In addition to forming conjuncts, this key also allows us to combine two consonants where the first doesn't have a "half-looking" character. ![]() It takes the place of the apostrophe key in an English keyboard, making it very accessible. As you have learned this key allows us to type conjuncts without remembering any codes. The first key to familiarize is the VIRAMA accent (called halant in English), which looks like ્ on the layout. I will explain the placement of only certain special keys here. There are a certain few exceptions to the phonetic placements because there are more Gujarati consonants than English consonants, but these can be learned easily and need no discussion. I also remapped the Gujarati numerals to coincide with the English numerals. ![]() The phonetic consonants are placed as according to Images 1 and 2 above. Below is a discussion of the special characters. I used the Harikrishna font map as a guide, but there are certainly differences as the Harikrishna font is a non-Unicode font. Hence, I created the Gujarati Phonetic and Hindi Phonetic keyboard layouts to make typing more suitable for an English keyboard. The problem with this built-in default Gujarati keyboard layout is that it doesn't work well if you have an English keyboard. This keyboard seems to have been developed or used by the Department of Engineering (or DOE) in India. Microsoft Windows comes with a default Gujarati keyboard layout (which is simply called Gujarati). Image 3: Hindi Phonetic Keyboard Layout - Ctrl+Alt State ![]()
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