Apple Indian Language Kit - Manual (Page 21)

Inscript: the standard Indian keyboard
The Inscript keyboard layout is the default layout in your kit. Developed in
India to answer the special needs of Indian languages, it is generally accepted
as the standard Indian language keyboard layout.
Inscript uses the ISCII character set. The computer combines these characters
to form the large number of conjuncts used in Indian languages. This means
that when you’re typing in an Indian language, you don’t have to search for the
correct half-character sets to form a conjunct. When you type a certain
sequence of consonants and vowels, the computer automatically generates the
required character.
For example, to write the word vidyarthi in Devanagari, you type the
consonants and vowels in the word in phonetic order, producing a word with
two conjuncts and one reordered vowel.
The basic phonetic arrangement looks like this in Roman characters:
[va] i [da] + [ya] á [ra] + [tha] i = vidyarthi
The keys that actually form the word are these:
b f o d / e j d L r
or
The computer automatically reorders vowels and consonants to produce the
desired words in all three languages. This means you can type the words
according to how they sound, rather than how they finally appear on your
screen. For example, in Gurmukhi,
c f l d j
in Devanagari,
u f v d o r
and in Gujarati,
21 Working With Indian Languages