Sinhala Phonetic Static Keyboard Layout

Objective

Create a keyboard layout where each keystroke corresponds to one or more Unicode codepoints. Awareness of surrounding letters are NOT required, thus allowing the keyboard driver to be simple.

Place Sinhala letters only on keys corresponding to the letters of the Latin alphabet. Place Sinhala punctuation only on keys corresponding to Latin punctuation.

Some options

• Move the dependent vowels to unshifted and shifted keys as they are probably more common than the independent vowels.

Implementations

• si-phonetic-static.mim (m17n)
• sinhala-phonetic_utf-8.vim (vim)
• lk (XKB)

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