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I have enabled Hindi typing on Ubuntu from "Settings > Regional & Language > input tools > Hindi". But all the options are having different keyboard layouts which don't fit in corresponding phonetic (Roman) mapping. Moreover there is one more challenge in such mapping that many roman Hindi words (Romanagari) may match to different words in Hindi e.g. ककचहा, कच्छा and कक्षा

So I was looking for the application(or if I can develop it) which works as a bridge between actual keyboard and editor and can suggest /predict appropriate word.

Amit Kumar Gupta
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  • That doesn't sound like phonetic typing. That sounds like you enabled Hindi-keyboard-layout based input system. What input method did you enable and how did you enable it? – muru Feb 01 '18 at 07:54
  • Agree. I've updated the question. – Amit Kumar Gupta Feb 01 '18 at 08:09
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    Try some of the Hindi input methods provided by ibus-m17n package (see https://askubuntu.com/q/142977/158442 for installing and using it). The Swanalekha Malayalam input provides a drop down for selecting specific characters (but not words), but I don't think any of the Hindi methods do so. The Hindi (itrans) method is fairly easy, though: ककचहा is kakacahaa, कच्छा is kacchhaa, कक्षा is kakshaa (or kaxaa) – muru Feb 01 '18 at 08:26
  • So I have now installed ibus, ibus-m17n, and m17n-contrib. Now in Settings > Regional & Language > Manage Installed Languages > Keyboard Input method system is already set to ibus. Now from Input tools, under Hindi, I can see Bolnagiri, KaGaPa Phonetic, ad Wx. Nothing new is added. So how will I use itrans? – Amit Kumar Gupta Feb 01 '18 at 10:07
  • I tried Bolnagri, which is almost near what I was looking for. However Ubuntu itself is not printing few characters correctly E,g, श्र . It even doen't appear properly on browser . However some websites are showing it correctly. I wonder how. May be they are using some special fonts – Amit Kumar Gupta Feb 01 '18 at 11:52
  • @AmitGupta: There should be quite a few more Hindi options. Did you relogin (or reboot) after having installed ibus-m17n? – Gunnar Hjalmarsson Feb 01 '18 at 20:00
  • I've figured out why were they not being displayed. So added as answer on some other question – Amit Kumar Gupta Feb 02 '18 at 01:47

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