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There is Dzongkha keyboard for WIndows that allows people who are familiar with Tibetan alphabets order to type Tibetan. For people who are comfortable with English sounds of Tibetan characters, this keyboard offers the convenience to type Tibetan characters based on their English phonetic.
There are more than 26 alphabets in Tibetan hence it is not possible to match all alphabets on just the English alphabet keys and some of the Tibetan characters are mapped onto symbol keys.
Vowels are entered by "e", "i", "o", "u".
By pressing the SHIFT key + alphabet , one can get the alphabet as a Tibetan lower stack character.
Less often used characters, such as "laterally flipped" alphabets, and symbols are found using Alt + Ctrl+ [some key].
Special lower stack characters are found by using Alt + Ctrl+ Shift+[some key].
This keyboard has been put to use in digitizing a Tibetan prayer text that about 100 pages long. It is found to be user friendly and easy to use.
Features
- Phonetic entry of Tibetan characters.
- Vowels entry by "e", "i", "o", "u".
- Shift+key for lower stack
- Alt + Ctrl + less often encountered alphabets and symbols
- Alt + Ctrl + Shift for special lower stack characters