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is the Hindi keyboard incomplete?

I just found the Hindi keyboard on iPhone but I noticed that a lot of the letters are missing. For example, the full version of the vowels (which is necessary if I want to start a sentence with one) and the aspirated characters like ch, bh, ph, kh, gh, th, etc ... I was really excited that Apple finally added this to the list of international keyboards but it's sort of pointless if I can't even type properly with it. Is there just something I'm missing here or is it an incomplete keyboard?? It's funny, I would think with all the Indian developers working at Apple that someone would have taken more care when creating this keyboard!

Anyone else who has used this please let me know your experience. Thanks!

*Pooja*

iPhone 4S-OTHER, iOS 5

Posted on Oct 22, 2011 8:55 PM

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Rothrock

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Posted on Oct 26, 2011 7:41 PM

It looks to me like the full vowels are on the shift characters as are the aspirated consonants. Is that not what you are seeing?

Also I only get an INSCRIPT layout (vowels/matras on the left, consonants on the right) regardless of which keyboard I choose in the preferences. Are you seeing that behavior as well?

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Tom Gewecke

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May 15, 2013 10:26 AM in response to ddsuresh

ddsuresh wrote:

Devanagari Sangam font needs to be fixed.

It would help for you to report it via

http://www.apple.com/feedback

Similar bugs have been found in the fonts for Khmer, Telugu, and Malayalam.

ddsuresh

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May 17, 2013 3:45 PM in response to psha85

Thanks Tom, I did report this issue today.

Jul 7, 2013 9:40 AM in response to ddsuresh

yup this indeed is a bug. great work finding it out. did you give your complaint to apple?

danroro

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Aug 13, 2013 5:20 AM in response to serenitynow1

Good idea - though it should not be viewed as a complaint, but rather as a helpful report. The hindi keyboard is amazingly good. It is the only bug that I have come across, which happened only because I read this forum. Nevertheless it should be corrected.

unilrn

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Apr 25, 2014 6:51 AM in response to Rothrock

typring प्रेस works on the mac but when the same is typed in Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator on a mac, it comes out as प् रेस . No idea why this is happening but appreciate any help.

Tom Gewecke

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Apr 25, 2014 7:08 AM in response to unilrn

unilrn wrote:

typring प्रेस works on the mac but when the same is typed in Adobe Photoshop or Illustrator on a mac, it comes out as प् रेस . No idea why this is happening but appreciate any help.

Make sure the font for the text in question is set to Devanagari MT, but that may not help.

You will find that Adobe and MS apps are often defective in terms of their support for Indic and RTL scripts on the Mac. You really need to ask in the Adobe forums regarding their problems, but I think Adobe provides a special Devanagari font that must be used to get correct display with their stuff.

Sep 24, 2014 5:02 PM in response to ddsuresh

This seems to have been corrected in ios 8. check it out.

Tom Gewecke

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Sep 24, 2014 7:44 PM in response to electronicsguy123

Yes, the Devanagari sangam font has been fixed. Also in os x 10.9.5.

is the Hindi keyboard incomplete?