Virtual multilingual keyboard

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2009/11/12 H.S.Rai <hardeep.rai at gmail.com>:
> How I can enter UNICODE text in Indian language (Hindi Punjabi)? I
> could see some parts of GUI and application in Punjabi. I have "Lohit
> Punjabi" font installed and listed in OpenOffice as well as AbiWord.
> On typing with Lohit Punjabi font, I still get ENGLISH typed, and not
> punjabi. I cannot use special keyboard. I want to use normal keyboard
> of laptop, or virtual keyboard. Is there any such keyboard? I tried
> gok, but there appear no button to switch language / change keyboard.
>
> Please help.
>
> --
> H.S.Rai

I read that you solved your problem, so I will just add a short comment:
Unicode (UTF-8 for example) contains tens of thousands of different
characters. Most of them are not supported in an Ubuntu default
install, so additional fonts need to be installed. When you do that,
it means that some previous non supported characters now are
supported. For example I installed a font for symbols for writing
music. This has nothing to do with my keyboard layout. A is still an A
and so on. The difference is that those UTF-8 characters that had
nothing assinged to them now has. Since they are located at U+1D100 →
U+1D1FF, I can still not reach them from my keyboard, unless I create
my own keyboard layout (which I actually did…) or use some other
method to reach them. That's why you still get the same kind of
characters when typing. SCIM is a solution to that problem in your
case. Another solution could be to swith to another keyboard layout,
if there is one for those characters of yours.

Johnny Rosenberg