Kannada WinScript (NLCI) Keyboard Help

This keyboard mimics Kannada WinScript Keyboard Layout designed by NLCI in 1988. Several linguists and members of translation community are still using this keyboard layout for keyboarding the text. This is a phonetic based keyboarding system designed with the objective of keyboarding text with minimal keystrokes. Keys are also layed out according the frequency of occurance, yet tried to follow a phonetic based keyboarding system.

Desktop Keyboard Layout

Mobile/Tablet Keyboard Layout

Due to the size and number of keys, some characters are hidden in the long press. Press and hold on the key with a little dot on the top right to reveal and use them. The keys that are on the RALT layers can be found on the equivalent longpress key. For example, avagraha is on the RALT+QUOTE key. It is on the longpress for the QUOTE key.

Input sequences

Special cases

Virama

X is used as virama Eg k X will generate ಕ್‌

Using =

Vowel Sign Elongation

Conjuncts

x is used as conjuncts Eg k x l will generate ಕ್ಲ

Numbers

` Backtick with number will get Kannada number Eg ` 1 will generate ೧

Backtick for change into English

` Backtick is used to change into English Eg ` ತ will generate q

All Documentation Versions

• Kannada WinScript (NLCI) Keyboard Help 2.2
• Kannada WinScript (NLCI) Keyboard Help 2.1
• Kannada WinScript (NLCI) Keyboard Help 2.0

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