Thanks everyone for the feedback on the Beta 1 version of this software.

I have now teamed up with a linguist and have set up a public project for this. Please be a part of this project.

We've now released Beta 2:

- http://www.cs.niu.edu/~deepak/roman2unicode/

With your participation, we hope to make this an exciting and useful project.

The earlier discussion on Beta 1 can be found here:
- http://www.sajha.com/sajha/html/OpenThread.cfm?forum=2&ThreadID=26759

Whatmore, aiyaaa!!!
Thanks ! :D

Then that's it... :P I guess it covers em all. :D

^ ignores

वाह वाह्, व्हाट मोर्, thanks, its all clear and easy now

इकोस ब्रो ले linguistic भन्थे, तिमी नै हो कि के हो

Okay!!! But some of them are going to be hard... eh... esp. with the ones with "ग", which were pretty simpler till yesterday... eh!! (hope Echoes hears my aawaaz re kyaa) ehe.

Wanna Try this??? :P
Drill number one!!!

write down भाग्यमानी { I wrote down using echoes ko software... :P}
It's 10:19 right now... :P 11 minutes is good for you? aha.

Great job Echoes.. !!
Thank you.. :)

kalanki, its 10.31

and i typed bhaa[g\ya\maa\neee

hey Echoes bro...thot i applaud for the work ur doin :oD...well u deserve more..esp whenever ppl for and needs help in programmin and IT related stuffs and ur most of the time there ;o) hehe...dun deny ;o) hehe...

but this thing ur workin on...dyam its really a great idea if u ask me..esp for anyone who doesnt know how to spell properly in nepali..u know write in nepali..tho one might know the meanin of the words..spellin it is another thing :oS...u asked for input..but me being me..mero nepali taa barbaad chaa(मेरो नेपाली ता बर्बाद चा) hehe...easy aint it?thanks to u ;o) hehe...anyways cant really give much input i guess..since even me 'roman' nepali isnt the same as others..well is there any standard kinda 'roman' nepali?if there is let me know..i might try to adopt it..but just cos i said that it doesnt mean i will..u cant teach old dog new tricks hoina(होइन?)?;oP hehe...wah loving seeing it all comin out in nepali characters!!!WOOHOOO!!!:oD

oh yah before me ramblin makes one goes to sleep..did wanna ask u...it would be nice esp to me(hopefully to some others too hehe)..if ..errr u know... the nepali words and characters could be converted to 'roman' nepali...im pretty used to readin 'roman' nepali and yap due to lack of practice(lots of it ;oP hehe) and cos of me capabality(incapability?;oP hehe) and of cos can we forget me laziness hehe(shudnt even mention it hoina?;oP hehe)...there has been times where well i would have liked to read some articles..but after few sentences...u know...get headaches :oS...and yap always end up not readin :oS hehe...

so well im sure that can be done hoina?tho dunno how much trouble it will be..cos tho it might sound easy to reverse it in idea...in programmin it can be quite an arse eh?;oP hehe...la la..thats all the input i could think of from me own experience..hope that helps..i know it will help me...dunno about others hehe..(dun blame me for givin lazy ppl to become lazier hai :oS ;oP hehe..i take no responsibility for others ;oP hehe..)who knows once u do it..parents will come out blaming ur program for not even makin an effort to read in nepali fonts ;oP hehe...oh well nothin is perfect now is it?;oP hehe...so even if the reversible function aint implemented..well guess nothin can be perfect :oS ;oP hehe..(hope that psyched u up to aim for that perfection..or would it be called or end up a flaw?who knows?;oP hehe)

la la enuf of babbling...dunno if im making sense hehe..i think another program to make shit english esp with the "...." gone from sentences is in the want of making ;oP hehe...good luck there and cheers for makin it lot easier for lots of us..more than one can count hoina ;o)...

and oh yah if someone has already given this input hehe..dun mind me..cant read them all..i can give lack of time as a reason but we all know its more on laziness hoina?;oP hehe...

good day :oD..and cheers again ;o) hehe..

Anonymous... waah!!! Sup???

Redstone, but bhaa[g\ya\maa\neee = भाग्यमानीए
I Said भाग्यमानी ehe.. Aight... 15 more minutes... Anononononono bro, wanna try that?? :P

no way

bhaa[g\ya\maa\neee gives भाग्यमानी

its 3 Es, not four
four gives the one you said

Figured it out!!! :D


bhaa[g\ya\maa\nee] = भाग्यमानी but the thing is that I have to Close the square bracket otherwise it will mess up rest of the words... hmm!!

Alright... good job.. :D Back to Discovery channel... :P Connection between Mammoth and Hubble Telescope... :O Sounds Crazy... ah!! Herdai chu.. :D

kalanki bro dun distract me!:@ i got smthing 'universally right' to do!:@ sheesh!distractors!:@ ;oP hehe

anyways if anyone is that free(im refferin to both of u ;oP hehe)...and since both of u seem to be quite a capable lot of lads ;o)..(makha paryo?cos wat im gonna ask next requires both of u to be so makha parney and in the air ke ;oP hehe anyways *crosses fingers* oops its legs..sheesh how can i type with crossed fingers ..dun wanna be called a liar do i?;oP hehe tho im lyin down and typin..pls believe me!;oP hehe)...as i was sayin before both of u disrupted me!:@(both ur thots ke!now now dun be scared cos i was thinkin of both of u for a moment there..moment is gone ;oP hehe)..

as i was sayin :oS hehe...anyone free and capable enuf to make a chart of the nepali alphabets and their romanized form...saw that echoes bro just showed some (maybe its there and i couldnt find it :oS hehe)...it be nice to have a standard chart of the letters and their romanzed form wouldnt it?who knows u could even sell it after doin it...of cos a complete set pls..of all the possible characters its possible hehe..sounds like a tedious job?did i say it was easy?thats why we need someone capable..any of u lads willin to give it a shot?;oP hehe...

la la im really off for me 'universal right' thing to do for me ;oP hehe...hopefully i wont type no more..for now.:oS...hehe..dun start again!:@ dun u dare!:@ ;oP hehe

good day :oD...

you know what danny! screw you! :D:D:D

jk
maybe ill add some! but i can't do it all!
and if you can, look up here
- http://www.niu.edu/~deepak/roman2unicode/specialwords/default.aspx

whos danny?:o| screw him re?u got a thing for him?:o|...oho u shud have told us eearlier ;oP ..who knows u still might have chance re kya...wahahahah ;oP...

baadar!!!u gone nuts again?!!!:o| feeln it too much eh?wahahahaha ;oP hehe
ok ok go ewww u sick ppl!sick thots!:@ ;oP hehe btw i havent got nuts hai!!!and i dun need to feel to confirm!:@ wahahahaah ;oP hehe

anyways cheers for the link...didnt see it before ...those are words ke..i was talkin about character...tho i dun think character conversion will be worth the time..but sheesh!havin the basic standard is always good hoina?;oP hehe...

btw baadar!!!who has been using me name!:@ i see quite some 'contributions' by anonymous!!!and i never did any!!:@ who is using me name!WHO!:@ hehe..

ok enuf i think hehe...laters and u watchn discovery channel too?wat are u discoverin there ?;oP hehe

good day :oD...

"But some of them are going to be hard... eh... esp. with the ones with "ग", which were pretty simpler till yesterday." --KALANKI

Ok, we have re-wired it a little. The ordinary gya is restored to what it used to be, but words that are based off of 'gyan' will still see ज्ञान , etc. This should meet your needs.

About the short R you mentioned, we could program it to a key but we are not sure if it deserves a dedicated key of its own... If there are not THAT many words that use that symbol, we can enter those words into the special words database and that will take care of that. Thanks tho. You've been great, as always. Keep it coming...and add those funny words that you always come up with into the special words db, too!

" लौ, अब भने सजिलो भयो ! तर अझै मेरो तर्फबाट यौटा सुझाब,
चन्द्रबिन्दुको लागि दिइएको बटन (" ^" ) जर्मन र फ्रेन्च किबोर्ड भएका कम्प्युटरमा सरसर्ती हेरेर पाउन सकिएन । त्यसैले यसको लागि अर्कै बटन (key) दिनसके म जस्ता प्रयोगकर्तालाइ सजिलो हुनेथियो ! "
--Ocean

We considered your suggestion and have changed the chandrabindu character from the '^' key to '**' (two asterisks). I hope this makes it a little easier on you. Thanks.

Anonymous:

Well, yes, you are right, we may be able to reverse the logic and produce the Roman sequence from a given Unicode set. We may do that in the future, and I can see where it could be useful, but for now our priority has been to get the Roman-to-Unicode part on a farily useful state (and I think we're close to getting there). Thanks for the input...

"
say you want to write

धत् मोरा कस्तो कुरा गर्छ
and you type dhat. gives you धत्। with "purna biram". you have to hit period to get that त् but it gives "purna biram right after than, and seems like the sentence end.
"


red bro--
well the scoop is that the 'Smart Converter' (SM) thinks that a trailing half letter should not have the sign (so it should appear as the complete consonant)... Like what_more said, you can tell SM to leave certain words alone by putting them inside the square brackets... But keep testing. I'll buy you a beer for every valid bug you find :-p... Same goes to Kalanki... I guess I already owe him a carton tho ;-)

Hello, everyone. Thanks again for the continued support. I think we are now out of the Beta versions... The software has been pretty thoroughly tested and is in a stable shape.

So Alpha 1 is out.

We'll keep trying to make it better...

Bravo !! Echoes

Anonymous,

If you're still around, just wanted to tell you that we did consider your request and have implmented a solution in the current version that should meet your needs...

Essentially, it can now do a 'reverse' conversion. So for a given block of Unicode Nepali, it will tell you what the roman should be.

To use this feature, first go to the 'Edit Mode', then unlock the Nepali panel (by clicking on the little padlock sign up at the top)... There, copy & paste a chunk of Unicode (like from kantipuronline.com or something), hit a space key, and it should produce the corresponding Roman on the left panel...

Hope this makes the ABCNs (umm, not sure about the C, eh) happy!

Well, the NBARCNs, too. What's the AR?: American Raised :-p

BTW, join the users group for more updates!