Dzongkha/Keyboard
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Existing Resources
Dzongkha Keyboard Layout (2009) was jointly designed by the Dzongkha Development Commission (DDC) and the Department of Information Technology (DIT).
Optimized Keyboard Layout
Justification
The official Dzongkha keyboard is arranged alphabetically with an awkward placement of vowels right at the middle of the top row.
Since characters with multiple diacritics are very common, most users find the constant use of shift tiring and inefficient.
(i guess mention here how we tried to solve this problem but the challenges we faced that made it not possible to solve atm)
The official keyboard also borrows a lot of punctuation marks and symbols from the original Tibetan language but since they are not used often (or at all) in the ordinary Dzongkha language and are reserved mostly (and almost exclusively) for religious Sanskrit texts, we are omitting it from our current prototype keyboard version.
We were thereby, able to reduce the four levels of keys to two levels.
The current goal is to optimize the keyboard by rearranging the keys to match the <model nicolas referred to?>. We documented the character frequency from a corpus of Dzongkha folktales, poems, and news.
(should we include a section for future improvement? or potential areas to work on?)
