Add Bangla (Probhat) layout

[niazmorsh3d]

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Feature description

Probhat layout is a very popular and opensource keyboard layout that is present by default in linux operating system. Please add this keyboard layout. I am giving you a sample of this layout so that it become easy for you to apply.

Why do you want this feature?

Because most of the people widely use this layout and if you add this , user of this keyboard will drastically increase. I encourage people use opensource application.

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[NaeemBolchhi]

@naveensingh Can I work on this? I'm familiar with Bengali typing and this layout.

[naveensingh]

Yes. Are you familiar with the language itself?

[NaeemBolchhi]

Yes. It's my native language.

[NaeemBolchhi]

@naveensingh We need a kind of separator for the popup keys to implement this layout. In English and other such languages, two characters don't merge into a single character. But that's common in Bengali.

So, for instance, ্ and য becomes ্য.

Unfortunately, it is currently not possible to have ্য as a popup key, as it gets split into its source characters and becomes two separate pop up keys.

Also, some popup key characters inevitably merge into a new character if there is no space between them. Which I guess would be rendered as two separate characters in the actual keyboard, but looks out of place when editing the xml.

Suppose a space is used a separator. It would let us have these grouped characters as a single popup key.

To avoid having to edit all existing layouts and add spaces, you could add a check to see if the separator exists in the pop up key list first. So, if a space exists, it deals with it differently than what it's currently doing.

Basically, we need a way to have multiple characters as a single pop up key. Until then, this layout, and probably most other popular Bengali fixed layouts, would be impossible to implement.

Sorry if such a method already exists. In that case, please point me towards a layout where that's being used so I can learn from it.

[naveensingh]

Thanks, I'll look into it and get back here later.