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There is a particular input method for Hindi language (or Devanagiri script), known as Bolnagri. It is very convenient to type using this method and it comes by default on Ubuntu.

However, in Emacs, there are 4 input methods for typing in Devanagiri, but none of them is Bolnagri. That is when I press C-x RET C-\, I don't see any "Bolnagri" in the options.

How can I get this Bolnagri input method to work in Emacs?

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  • groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/comp.emacs/VI53dIhXCe0 and emacswiki.org/emacs/SupportHindi could be relevant.
    – Name
    Jan 5, 2018 at 11:45
  • What is the output of M-x list-input-methods?
    – Arun Kumar Khattri
    Mar 15, 2020 at 4:19
  • @ArunKumarKhattri M-x list-input-methods shows 4 Devanagiri input methods (among other languages): devanagari-inscript, devanagari-aiba, devanagari-kyoto-harvard, devanagari-itrans.
    – shivams
    Mar 15, 2020 at 6:26
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    If someone can produce a list of the mappings between ASCII input and the desired devanagari codepoints, that would be pretty easy to turn into an input method. There are screenshots on the indlinux page, but they're hard to turn into Unicode :-)
    – rpluim
    Jul 11 at 8:37
  • @rpluim in debian linux the keymap is defined in /usr/share/X11/xkb/symbols/in which is available in the package xkb-data: packages.debian.org/buster/xkb-data .. there you can see the unicode
    – Christian Herenz
    Jul 22 at 15:31

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Unfortunately, it is not there (yet)... There are email addresses on the IndLinux page for BolNagri https://indlinux.org/wiki/index.php/BolNagri, perhaps an author there might assist with porting it to an emacs input method.

However, you can always use the system input method (in my case on Linux xkb) with emacs.

In Linux/KDE it is possible to map switching input methods to Ctrl+Super+k, as this does not interfere with an emacs binding. How this is done, is described here. This is, indeed, not ideal, as we would strife for a environment independent solution within emacs. So someone needs to sit down and port BolNagri to emacs...

A downside from the system input is, that the emacs key combinations don't work. For example, if you press Ctrl+C emacs will register the Ctrl+छ, and the commands won't work as usual. Thus, having a real BolNagri input method is desired.

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