Missing half-R character in itrans map

[amit]

Hi,

Came across this IME and noticed that the ITRANS map for devanagari was missing marathi half-R character (mapped to R by itrans). I know that this is a common omission in many places where ITRANS. 

(Reference: : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ITRANS search for "Marathi half-RA" on that page)

--Amit

[ratreya]

Thanks for catching this. Is the Marathi half-RA the same as Eyelash-RA from the unicode charts: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0900.pdf (see code 0931)?

[amit]

Hi,

Bang on! It is used commonly in Marathi e.g. third -> तिसऱ्या

Thanks!
Amit

On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Ranganath Atreya notifications@github.com
wrote:

Thanks for catching this. Is the Marathi half-RA the same as Eyelash-RA
from the unicode charts: http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0900.pdf (see
code 0931)?

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[ratreya]

I am working on incorporating this into the generic Indic Mappings. In the meantime, you can simply edit line 58 of the following file:
/Library/Input Methods/LipikaIME.app/Contents/Resources/Schemes/Transliteration/ITRANS.tlr

And change it to:
CONSONANT RRA .D, R

You will have to restart your computer for changes to take effect.

[amit]

Hey, that's great! Verified that the fix works for me!

BTW I did not know there was an existing key combo to enter this character. Where did you get that from ? I am asking, because ITRANS maps it to D with a dot (ड़)!

--Amit

[ratreya]

Unfortunately the Unicode glyph name RRA is inconsistent for Devanagari. In almost all other North Indian scripts such as Bengali and Oriya, it maps to D with nukta (http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0980.pdf) and so I chose .D for it. But as a side-effect, you have to type Dz to get D with nukta in Devanagari for ITRANS.