Works for all the Punjabi fonts and keyboard layouts
supported by Akhar. You may be typing in Asees or in
Amrit-Lipi font, but if you click on any letter on the
keyboard, you will get the same output displayed for
both the fonts, even though Asees or in Amrit-Lipi, have
totally different keyboard layouts.
Facility to customize the keyboard to any of the
supported thirty seven Punjabi keyboards.
Akhar supports majority of the commonly used Punjabi
fonts and keyboard layouts and it can be customised to
behave according to any of the commonly used Remington
or Phonetic Punjabi keyboards. Thus, for example, if you
comfortable with the keyboard of Anmol Lipi, then you
can set the keyboard to type the letters according to
the Anmol Lipi font and Akhar will type according to
Anmol Lipi font irrespective of the Punjabi font
currently being used.
Facility to type text in Romanised Punjabi.
For users, who are more comfortable in English typing
as compared to Punjabi typing, a Romanised Punjabi
keyboard has been provided. As you type your text in
English, you get an immediate feedback of the
transliterated text in Punjabi. The Transliteration
utility enables the user to use mnemonic keys (QWERTY
keys correspond to Punjabi sounds and letters). In other
words you can key in the characters as you would
normally pronounce them (using the mapping table
provided) and the end output will be the text in
Punjabi.
This keyboard is meant for three types of users:
1. Those whose mother-tongue is Punjabi, who can
speak it and who do not know how to write it.
2. Those who have learnt the language orally but have
not mastered the written skills.
3. Those who feel comfortable with a QWERTY keyboard.
Checking for illegal Punjabi character
combinations
Akhar has the provision to check for grammatically
incorrect Punjabi character combinations and not allow
such character combinations to be entered. Thus, for
example, if a user types an addak, and then tries to
type bihari or onkar, the system will not allow the
character to be typed. Similarly the first character of
a word cannot be a vowel symbol except sihari. An oora
has to be followed by an onkar or dulainkar and so on.
Currently the character combination checker works only
in AnmolLipi, AnmolKalmi and Akhar fonts.
