Editing Devanagari (section)

== Devanāgari keyboard layouts ==
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{{Hatnote|For a list of Devanāgari input tools and fonts, please see [[Help:Multilingual support (Indic)]].}}
[[File:इन्स्क्रिप्ट कळपाटाची ओळख.ogg|thumb|upright=0.9|Introduction to Inscript Key board]]

=== InScript layout ===
[[InScript]] is the standard [[Keyboard (computing)|keyboard]] layout for Devanāgarī as standardized by the Government of India. It is inbuilt in all modern major [[operating system]]s. [[Microsoft Windows]] supports the InScript layout, which can be used to input unicode Devanāgarī characters. InScript is also available in some touchscreen mobile phones.

[[File:Devanagari INSCRIPT Keyboard.JPG|thumb|none|upright=4|Devanāgarī INSCRIPT bilingual keyboard layout]]

=== Typewriter ===
This layout was used on manual typewriters when computers were not available or were uncommon. For backward compatibility some typing tools like Indic IME still provide this layout.

=== Phonetic ===
[[File:AKphonetic.jpg|thumb|upright=1.2|Devanāgari Phonetic Keyboard Layout]]
[[File:Devanagari ULS input.webm|thumb|upright=1.2|One can use ULS "{{lang|hi|लिप्यंतरण}}" ([[w:Transliteration|Transliteration]]) or "{{lang|hi|इनस्क्रिप्ट}}" ([[w:InScript keyboard|Inscript]]) typing options to search or edit Devanagari-script articles as shown in this video clip example. CC instructions are available for British English.]]

Such tools work on phonetic transliteration. The user writes in the Latin alphabet and the [[Input method editor|IME]] automatically converts it into Devanāgarī. Some popular phonetic typing tools are Akruti, [[Baraha]] IME and [[Google IME]].

The [[Mac OS X]] operating system includes two different [[keyboard layout]]s for Devanāgarī: one resembles the INSCRIPT/KDE Linux, while the other is a phonetic layout called "Devanāgarī QWERTY".

Any one of the Unicode fonts input systems is fine for the Indic language Wikipedia and other wikiprojects, including Hindi, Bhojpuri, Marathi, and Nepali Wikipedia. While some people use [[InScript keyboard|InScript]], the majority uses either [[Google transliteration|Google phonetic transliteration]] or the input facility [[:MW:Universal Language Selector|Universal Language Selector]] provided on Wikipedia. On Indic language wikiprojects, the phonetic facility provided initially was java-based, and was later supported by Narayam extension for phonetic input facility. Currently Indic language Wiki projects are supported by [[:MW:Universal Language Selector|Universal Language Selector (ULS)]], that offers both phonetic keyboard (Aksharantaran, Marathi: {{lang|inc-Deva|अक्षरांतरण}}, Hindi: {{lang|hi|लिप्यंतरण, बोलनागरी}}) and [[InScript keyboard]] (Marathi: {{lang|mr|मराठी लिपी}}).

The [[Ubuntu Linux]] operating system supports several [[keyboard layouts]] for Devanāgarī, including Harvard-Kyoto, [[WX notation]], Bolanagari and phonetic. The 'remington' typing method in Ubuntu IBUS is similar to the Krutidev typing method, popular in Rajasthan. The 'itrans' method is useful for those who know English (and the English keyboard) well but are not familiar with typing in Devanāgarī.
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