Brahmi - INSCRIPT Keyboard Layout

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This is an INSCRIPT-based layout for the Brāhmī block in Unicode. Note that while the layout contains all characters in the block, some characters found in Tamil-Brāhmī inscriptions (namely short vowels, virāma and ḷa) are not yet encoded and therefore unavailable, see the L2/19-402 proposal for more details. This layout is associated with Sanskrit (India) language as prakrit languages are not available.

Implementation notes:

• Bhaṭṭiprōḷu ā vowel sign is available on the long ā key using AltGr.
• The joiners are assigned as follows:
  • Ctrl+Shift+1 zero-width joiner
  • Ctrl+Shift+2 zero-width non-joiner
  • Ctrl+Shift+3 brāhmī number joiner

Font: In recent Windows versions, Brahmi is covered by Segoe UI Historic. You can also install Noto Sans Brahmi.

Installation instructions:

1. Download and extract sabrah.zip (250 kB)
2. Run setup.exe.
3. Sign out or restart your computer.

Feedback and bug reports welcome at spolek@ujca.cz